Can you see it? :-)

puts() prints a string on the terminal (standard output) with a newline appended: put string.

Maybe 050 gets interpreted as an octal number (40), so x == 290?

And that's why we put braces around every block, even if they just contain one line.

@anonymus19941 strike! great way to trip up people if you hide that in a formatted style like this. Static initialisers work also fine.

@ethernetzero that's not the point, and in fact, I don't do that because it adds verbosity for nothing. Well, except in my company where coding style demands that.

@anonymus19941 Hmm

@anonymus19941 exactly my thoughts..

@theNSA correct, that was the fun in the puzzle. :-)

@Fast-Nop Not enforcing braces sounds error prone to me.

@mampf I've never had an error because of this. However, in my company, it's coding standard, so I use it even if it sucks - but inconsistency between devs would suck even more.

@anonymus19941 nice! Saw it as well

@Fast-Nop I prefer even just inlining them so it's just 2 lines

@halfflat yeah. the Elvis operator is also great. I also really like null-safe traversal operator object?.property but C doesn't have those