Gender doesn't matter

[T Pat]

Few days back I came across following code

if(gender.contains('male'))
{
DoMaleThing();
}
else
{
DoFemaleThing();
}

Was not sure whether my colleague was knowing that 'female' option also contains 'male' in it. Had a great laugh with my TL when I showed him this. :laugh:

Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

[Nicholas Marty]

Well... Didn't you know it would have been discriminating otherwise ;P

[Jorgen Andersson]

If you put some effort to it you can mess up an enum too.

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]

[T Pat]

Ohh..now I understood the code who wrote this is a lady :doh:

Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

[Bernhard Hiller]

Lost in translation? It would work in most other languages. Also, he could consider: ladies first!

[Nagy Vilmos]

Years ago, I worked on a pension system and one of the calculations was to find the retirement age, the standard function was [converted to C# as I can't remember Prolog]:

int normalRetirementAge()
{
if (isMale())
{
return 65;
}
else
{
return 60;
}
}

Now, one client had everyone on their scheme retire at 60 irrespective of sex, the proposed solution by the PFY:

int normalRetirementAge()
{
if (isMale())
{
return 60;
}
else
{
return 60;
}
}

:confused:

speramus in juniperus

[ZurdoDev]

:thumbsup: :) That's funny. Perhaps it's like mailman. Could be either male or female. :)

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

[BillW33]

Sure, gotta leave the if/else logic in there in case it is needed later. ;) :laugh:

Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.

[Matt T Heffron]

RyanDev wrote:

Perhaps it's like mailman.

which evolved to "letter carrier" (because "mailperson" still sounds like it is referring to "male") like "stewardess" became "flight attendant"