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Programming XP - Avoiding overflows
In a traditional game, the higher your level is, the more XP you'll need to get another level up. The problem with a basic approach to this is that you could very quickly run into stack overflow problems.
Example of bad code with overflows
Example of fixed code without overflow problems
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