The Never Executed Loop

Bernhard Hiller

Just discovered that gem:

    private string DoSomething(string input)
    {
        int len = input.Length;
        //fill up, in case leading 0s were lost
        for (int i = len; i < len; i++)
            input = "0" + input;

Ravi Bhavnani

Cool. An O(zero) loop. ;P /ravi

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jeron1

On the positive side, there's no bugs in code that's never executed.

Adam R Harris

I like the positive outlook you have.

Don't comment your code - it was hard to write, it should be hard to read!

BillW33

Even if the loop was set up right that is not a great way to prepend zeros. :wtf:

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

Lost User

jeron1 wrote:

there's no bugs

That's not a correct statement, there could still be undetected bugs :)

phil o

What a fast algorithm!

[Flags]
public enum Bool {
True, False, ForSure, Maybe, ProbablyNot, Depends, NotDecidedYet, Undefined
}

Bernhard Hiller

Ooops, I must correct my statement: that code is not thread-safe, it might be executed, and bad things would happen...

jeron1

If the code is never executed, it'll go undetected for a really looooong time. :-D

Hassan Oumar Mahamat

Very funny :) . It happens sometimes!

TheGreatAndPowerfulOz

I'd like a list of all the undetected bugs, please!

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Brilliant note, Ravi.

—SA

Sergey A Kryukov

Ravi Bhavnani

:) /ravi

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