Does the concept of "magic number" change from language to language?
- by Gerardo Marset
Take the following code in C/C++, for example:
int foo[] = {0, 0, 0, 0};
No magic numbers, right?
Now, the Python "equivalent" of that would be:
foo = [0, 0, 0, 0]
Still no magic numbers.
However, in Python, that same thing can be written like this:
foo = [0] * 4
And now we DO have a magic number. Or do we?
I'm guessing this and other similar things are present on these and other languages.
