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Soheil1 Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Hit

Hi.
What does hit mean in:
The above program declared an integer variable x in the interface abc. And that's what hit the C# compiler badly.

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soheil1 And that's what hit the C# compiler badly. The above sentence, with hit can be simply interpreted as: And that's what affected the C# compiler badly. or better And that's what caused an error in the C# compiler.

  • soheil1 And that's what hit the C# compiler badly.
  • The above sentence, with hit can be simply interpreted as: And that's what affected the C# compiler badly.
  • or better And that's what caused an error in the C# compiler.
  • Prajwal
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soheil1And that's what hit the C# compiler badly.
The above sentence, with hit can be simply interpreted as:

And that's what affected the C# compiler badly.
or better
And that's what caused an error in the C# compiler.

Prajwal
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soheil1The above program declared an integer variable x in the interface abc. And that's what hit the C# compiler badly.
It's not a natural use of the verb "hit."

Computer programmers might say:
And that's what caused the C# compiler to throw an error / generate error messages.
And that's what caused the C# compiler to crash / fail.

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