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How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2

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1371 points yett | 1 comments | 23 Apr 25 14:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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pmarreck ◴[23 Apr 25 17:27 UTC] No.43774498[source]▶
My takeaway, speaking as someone who leans towards functional programming and immutability, is "this is yet another example of a mutability problem that could never happen in a functional context"

(so, for example, this bug would have never been created by Rust unless it was deeply misused)

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jdndndb ◴[23 Apr 25 17:48 UTC] No.43774734[source]▶
Could you elaborate? I cannot see how a functional programming language would have protected you from reading a non existing value while not providing a default
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1. pjc50 ◴[24 Apr 25 10:15 UTC] No.43780979[source]▶
It simply would not have allowed you to write code which did that. And you wouldn't have a function like sscanf() either. You'd probably end up with a much more normal looking parser function that returned a value-or-error type.