Missed Opportunity for Easter Egg

[TheGreatAndPowerfulOz]

AspDotNetDev wrote:

If 1 = 2 Then

In old-school Fortran this was a real potential. Certain integers were stored at memory locations, then you could say 1 = 2 (assign the value 2 to where the value 1 is stored). Then statements like

if 1 = 2 then ...

would be 'valid'.

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[wizardzz]

Pfft, what an idiot. We all know msdn recommends using 23 = 33, or even 23 = 12. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/215yacb6(v=vs.71).aspx[^]

[lewax00]

That must have been a real pain to debug X|

[OriginalGriff]

Oh yes! I remember making that mistake - it took ages to find before I realized that my constant values had changed... Trouble was,

1=2

looked a lot like

I=2

:doh:

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[lewax00]

What I don't understand is why they went with 12 and not 13. I feel like that would have fit better.

[OriginalGriff]

I thought MSDN recommended:

if (23 == 023)
{
...
}

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[Lost User]

2 + 2 = 5 if Big Bro says so.

Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.

[Tadas Budvytis]

ha ha. Make it on production and guaranteed next day customers will call u ... ;)

[Steve Mayfield]

When I first read this, I assumed it was "ell" = 2 :doh:

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[Sander Rossel]

I've unwillingly sent millions of $ to my private bank account because O looked a lot like 0! Well, that's what I'll tell the judge when they find out ;p

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[lewax00]

Of course, how could I be so foolish?

[Matthew Dennis]

or 9 x 6 = 42

[greldak]

In VB that expression will always resolve to False In other languages (C included) you could overload the values for 1 and 2 and/or the operator = or command If Good luck figuring out whats going on with that level of obfuscation. Its not something I would expect to see as a simple expression but it can be useful as a clause especially if you need to build up a complex expression at run time. In practice its more likely that some piece of funcionality is wanted to remain in the codebase but not required to run under normal circumstances - probably debug code although there are better ways of doing it.

[svella]

greldak wrote:

In other languages (C included) you could overload the values for 1 and 2 and/or the operator = or command If
Good luck figuring out whats going on with that level of obfuscation.

I'm pretty sure you're wrong about being able to override either the values or the operator in C (or even C++ for that matter), but I'd welcome a working example.

[Sucramsy]

If 42 is the answer to life the universe and everything then this statement would be true.

[reilly96]

in SQL I use that to create tables with no data

select *
into #t
from table1
where 1=2

[onemorechance]

OriginalGriff wrote:

... my constant values had changed...

Something about that just doesn't seem right ...

[ekolis]

You can do that in Java as well, though it requires boxing conversions...

[OriginalGriff]

That's why it took so long to work it out - it's just not something you expect... :laugh:

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