The Weird and The Wonderful

"[Update: 18 November 2002: Microsoft have announced that a future version of C# will include support for anonymous methods.]" The article must have been written against .net 1.0, when the framework was pretty immature compared to Java. Sort of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and Dilbert.[^] -Or- A Dead ringer for Kate Winslett[^]

How about overloading those operators? Also, you might want to use the monad- or the decorator pattern to split that up into multiple lines :) I are Troll :suss:

What translation? I have to maintain and fix bugs in his code. It is all like that. Variables have wrong names, and their meaning changes al the time. Variable named "exchange" may actually mean "exchange_code", "exchange_id", "IExchange", "ExchangeConfig". "string exchange" may be used to keep "exchange_id", "exchange_code", and later on "exchange_name"... "instrument" may be of type "IInstrumentWrapper", "Ric", "Occ", "IDataAccessor", or whatever, and "accessor" means exactly the same... What about his unique approach to multi-threading? GUI thread: Click start background thread do something synchronous post to GUI Dispatcher wait until GUI is done do something synchronous post to GUI Dispatcher wait until GUI is done do something synchronous post to GUI Dispatcher wait until GUI is done do something Thread synchronization? Done using bunch of boolean flags, so it is one big race condition waiting to happen. There is no way to stop any background thread of course, so usually you have to use TaskManager to kill the application after you click "Close". Forget about memory leaks and such.

Yes, but String isn't an IList -- but not to worry, I wrote... I wrote my own String class today. :cool:

Yeah, I can't get it to throw an exception (even when I use an invalid key), though the MSDN documentation says an exception can be thrown. One more thing I noticed is that ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings is deprecated in favor of ConfigurationManager.AppSettings, though it may be fine if the code resides in an older version of the .Net Framework in which that was not yet deprecated. [WikiLeaks Cablegate Cables]

Kinda learned that one, didn't I? :P Don't forget to rate my post if it helped! ;) "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." "His mother should have thrown him away, and kept the stork." "There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." "He loves nature, in spite of what it did to him."

Throw new UserFellAsleepAtTheKeyboardException(me) Dwayne J. Baldwin

Robert Croll wrote: Actually very handy if you are passing a object type which has an underlying value of type bool But this specific function does not take an object. It takes a bool and returns a bool. Just wasted code in any usage return 5;

Hmmm, let's improve it! static void AddEquipment(object dontUseThisWeHaveToDeleteThisMethod) { if (dontUseThisWeHaveToDeleteThisMethod is bool && (bool)dontUseThisWeHaveToDeleteThisMethod) return; } Seems better?

I use less ! on my messenger :laugh: - Bits and Bytes Rules! 10(jk)

The root of the problem is that it's done in VB... ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997

LOL it made me laugh enough.

That's the best answer I have seen yet. sometimes writing code is not about making it work, but how to handle things when they don't work....... :laugh:

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: .. ... try { retry: while (filename = EmptyString) { if(Len(fileName) == 0) { fileName = Left(DBEngine.Workspaces(0).Databases(0).Name, i) & "REF" } } } catch { goto retry; } filename = ""; :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: .... just trying to see how many people will complain about this.... ;P I'd blame it on the Brain farts.. But let's be honest, it really is more like a Methane factory between my ears some days then it is anything else... ----- "The conversations he was having with himself were becoming ominous."-.. On the radio...

No more lame than many of the things that have been posted in the Lounge section. My only objection was that it belongs in the General Indian Topics forum or the Lounge forum (with a translation). Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.

Gaaah!!! throw new Stone(); Agh! Reality! My Archnemesis![^] | FoldWithUs! | sighist | WhoIncludes - Analyzing C++ include file hierarchy

:laugh: Yeah, maybe. Agh! Reality! My Archnemesis![^] | FoldWithUs! | sighist | WhoIncludes - Analyzing C++ include file hierarchy

If rewritten properly this method is tail-recursive and thus ipso facto iterative (by nature).