Had to stick them here, as the capability of the C++ forum to generate piles of crap is unbelievable, and gems like these get lost in the process. Both messages are from Bench who, AFAICT, is probably the most matter-of-fact, no BS expert around here. As said before, I am learning C++ on the side, and his 2 messages taught me more than anything...

Another constraint to the bridge exercise was to give the length of the bridge found. I had not looked into this as this has very little interest (it would be more relevant if we actually were looking for the shortest one...), but to be complete, here is the solution with the length. The idea is to keep track of the distance of a point. ...

Hi.

My name's Edwin Nameless.

Well, actually, no, it's not my name. But it's a cool pseudo, really, isn't it.

I live in Ireland. But I am not Irish. English is not even my mother tongue.

And I browse a coding website on a Friday night, when everybody's having fun in the pub.

So there you go, you have it, I am not really...