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Re: game code help

Mar 23rd, 2004

Just a few things about this code, whoever wrote doesn't really understand completely what is going on. The header fstream is for file i/o, which isn't used in this program at all, also cout, and cin are used so the iostream header must be included. For the random functions I think what is needed is randomize = srand (seed the random number generator) and random(die) can be reproduced from

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(rand() % die) + 1
(rand() % die) + 1

Also some compilers don't care about this, but some do, cout, and cin are contained in the namespace std, so you may need to fully qualify them i.e.

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std::cout << ...

or put a

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using namespace std;

at the top of your program.

Doing this, I still could not get it to compile because VS.net 2003 gives a fatal compile error.