The Weird and The Wonderful

Chris Losinger wrote: i'm not sure why you refuse to acknowledge my point. I am. :) -- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit

VB kind of forced all of us to a number of little implementation horrors, what with fake OOP and all. :-D I had my share of VB back in the day, and I'm happy it's over! When I have to maintain some of my old code from the 90's I still shiver at some horrors I see. It sure was partly my fault, but I'm convinced VB did its part. We will probably enter yet another phylosophical/religious debate if we start arguing about goods and bads in old VB, but I think (hope) everybody will agree that even if it did have a sense in its day, it was just EVIL. ;P 2+2=5 for very large amounts of 2 (always loved that one hehe!)

Shite! :~ X| Sometimes while reading the programming forums, I just feel like jabbing a fork into my eyes. It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini

Just an optional requirement..... :laugh:

Jokin' i suppose... :laugh:

Maybe he doesn't understand the Spanish. :laugh: Vita est usquequaque virtus victus ut plenus. Ego non sum semper iustus tamen Ego sum nunquam nefas!

:laugh: Sincerely Samer Abu Rabie Imagination is more important than knowledge !

I'm with Chris. Stored procedures are overused nowadays and are often used when a simpler technique will suffice.

Ummm yeah.

Arnaud Lhopiteau wrote: ISNULL(Closed,0) belts... Arnaud Lhopiteau wrote: If @IsClosed Is Null and braces. What more do you want? Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.

There are more #if #endif-related ReSharper bugs. Here is one of them which I spotted some time ago: I you'd enable generating XML documentation in your project settings, you will get warnings in every place where you didn't make documentation. So far so good. However, once upon a time I wanted to have a different description for debugging and realase builds. #if DEBUG /// <summary> /// Useless and unreliable sh*t, do not use this. /// </summary> #else /// <summary> /// This is a very subtle class which performs many difficult and expensive algorithms. /// </summary> #endif public class Damage : Occurance C# compiler wasn't complaing, but ReSharper wanted me to add another summary. Greetings - Jacek Gajek

I have to say that is the worst switch statement that I have ever seen and I have seen some pretty bad ones :sigh: Bill W Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.

Hardly a Coding Horror. An inefficient process to be sure, but not a horror. * Sensible Function names * Sensible Method Sizes * Sensible Variable Declarations * Clear Intent ------------------------------- Carrier Bags - 21st Century Tumbleweed.

So he found the right forum. :-O To be honest: tons of old code are running: in banks :(( , factories, (nuclear) plants or goverments agencies. They have often a problems finding the code and a maintainer, like COBOL. Press F1 for help or google it. Greetings from Germany

Looks like VB is scoring better,... Dim codes() As String = New String(){"bad", "good"} Dim rating As Integer = (Array.IndexOf(codes, "bad") + 1) * 5 It feels good to learn and achieve

TheScientistIsDead wrote: would this be another example? I don't think so. Your code produces error " error: cannot call member function ‘char NullCall::PublicMethod(int)’ without object". You can compile this by making the method as static but you can't use this inside a static method. :) Navaneeth How to use google | Ask smart questions

My answer below: I reduced the occurrence of the problem by splitting some methods and using a dictionary instead of large switches that cause stack bloats. Now a simple recursive factorial method works with 400 instead of 46, that is almost 900% better Natza Mitzi

Brilliant! Aren't we glad English has only 26 letters? I'd like to see the Chinese version of the code (thousands of letters). It is a crappy thing, but it's life -^ Carlo Pallini

As I said, a horropr made by me. I just realized that it has to be this way. I guess that's what ages opf windows forms programming with only void methods can do to you, you forget the basics of functions. :doh:

Thnx dude, didn't know that :) GSoC 2009 student for SMW! --- My little forums: http://code.bn2vs.com --- 70 72 6F 67 72 61 6D 6D 69 6E 67 20 34 20 6C 69 66 65!