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  • Z ZurdoDev

    David O'Neil wrote:

    bool isProgrammerCompleteFnIdiot(true) || isProgrammerNew()

    FTFY

    There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data. There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

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    TheGreatAndPowerfulOz
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    Syntax error: expecting '{' after ')'

    #SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun

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      Syntax error: expecting '{' after ')'

      #SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun

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      Please post your question in Quick Answers.

      There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data. There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

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      • M Marc Clifton

        bool isOffset = new bool();
        if (reader["foo"].ToString().ToUpper().Trim() == "BAR")
        isOffset = true;
        else
        isOffset = false;

        I'll stop now. Marc

        V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802

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        Sander Rossel
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        Just in case your bools give you a NullReferenceException. And your BaR s have trailing spaces and lower cases. And you really need those if else statements... Just out of curiosity, are you sure Trim() also trims uppercased spaces? :D

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          Just in case your bools give you a NullReferenceException. And your BaR s have trailing spaces and lower cases. And you really need those if else statements... Just out of curiosity, are you sure Trim() also trims uppercased spaces? :D

          Best, Sander arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript SQL Server for C# Developers Succinctly Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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          Lost User
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          You joke, but I've seen code that "uppercased" spaces to \0

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          • M Marc Clifton

            bool isOffset = new bool();
            if (reader["foo"].ToString().ToUpper().Trim() == "BAR")
            isOffset = true;
            else
            isOffset = false;

            I'll stop now. Marc

            V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802

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            Jon McKee
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            A little pointless but not too crazy. bool is just an alias for System.Boolean. The else was the silly part.

            Boolean isOffset = new Boolean(); //default false
            if (reader["foo"].ToString().ToUpper().Trim() == "BAR")
            isOffset = Boolean.Parse(Boolean.TrueString);

            Though I suspect unlike above that true and false are probably aliases for pre-defined constants. Couldn't find documentation on how they're created; above was just a guess using public Boolean members. Also true and false are operators that can be overloaded to create nullable types prior to .NET 2.0 (Nullable). Of course it's still silly to do it this way. bool is shorter to write and using true and false is both clearer and shorter.

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              You joke, but I've seen code that "uppercased" spaces to \0

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              Jon McKee
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              #12

              That is legitimately frightening :wtf:

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              • J Jon McKee

                A little pointless but not too crazy. bool is just an alias for System.Boolean. The else was the silly part.

                Boolean isOffset = new Boolean(); //default false
                if (reader["foo"].ToString().ToUpper().Trim() == "BAR")
                isOffset = Boolean.Parse(Boolean.TrueString);

                Though I suspect unlike above that true and false are probably aliases for pre-defined constants. Couldn't find documentation on how they're created; above was just a guess using public Boolean members. Also true and false are operators that can be overloaded to create nullable types prior to .NET 2.0 (Nullable). Of course it's still silly to do it this way. bool is shorter to write and using true and false is both clearer and shorter.

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                This goes well with a comment such as // deep copy of true

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                • J Jon McKee

                  A little pointless but not too crazy. bool is just an alias for System.Boolean. The else was the silly part.

                  Boolean isOffset = new Boolean(); //default false
                  if (reader["foo"].ToString().ToUpper().Trim() == "BAR")
                  isOffset = Boolean.Parse(Boolean.TrueString);

                  Though I suspect unlike above that true and false are probably aliases for pre-defined constants. Couldn't find documentation on how they're created; above was just a guess using public Boolean members. Also true and false are operators that can be overloaded to create nullable types prior to .NET 2.0 (Nullable). Of course it's still silly to do it this way. bool is shorter to write and using true and false is both clearer and shorter.

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                  Marc Clifton
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                  Well, the whole thing could be reduced to

                  bool isOffset = reader["foo"].ToString().ToUpper().Trim() == "BAR";

                  Why couldn't the programmer see that? Why didn't someone in the 2+ years that this code has been in production fix it? Marc

                  V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802

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                  • M Marc Clifton

                    Well, the whole thing could be reduced to

                    bool isOffset = reader["foo"].ToString().ToUpper().Trim() == "BAR";

                    Why couldn't the programmer see that? Why didn't someone in the 2+ years that this code has been in production fix it? Marc

                    V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802

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                    Jon McKee
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                    Very true! :thumbsup: I was just pointing out that new bool() isn't as crazy as it looks at first glance :)

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                    • J Jon McKee

                      Very true! :thumbsup: I was just pointing out that new bool() isn't as crazy as it looks at first glance :)

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                      Marc Clifton
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                      Jon McKee wrote:

                      I was just pointing out that new bool() isn't as crazy as it looks at first glance

                      Quite so. I don't usually even think about bool being shorthand for System.Boolean, and it's good to be reminded of the deeper nuances of the language. Marc

                      V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802

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                      • J Jon McKee

                        A little pointless but not too crazy. bool is just an alias for System.Boolean. The else was the silly part.

                        Boolean isOffset = new Boolean(); //default false
                        if (reader["foo"].ToString().ToUpper().Trim() == "BAR")
                        isOffset = Boolean.Parse(Boolean.TrueString);

                        Though I suspect unlike above that true and false are probably aliases for pre-defined constants. Couldn't find documentation on how they're created; above was just a guess using public Boolean members. Also true and false are operators that can be overloaded to create nullable types prior to .NET 2.0 (Nullable). Of course it's still silly to do it this way. bool is shorter to write and using true and false is both clearer and shorter.

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                        FWIW while bool is "sort of a struct", like all primitive types instances of it are "created" (without any ctors being called) by MSIL instructions, eg `true` is created by ldc.i4.1 And `new bool()` *literally is* (not just sort of metaphysically/hypothetically according to an AS-IF rule but the literal compiler output) ldc.i4.0 I guess the moral of this story is that bool is int

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                          FWIW while bool is "sort of a struct", like all primitive types instances of it are "created" (without any ctors being called) by MSIL instructions, eg `true` is created by ldc.i4.1 And `new bool()` *literally is* (not just sort of metaphysically/hypothetically according to an AS-IF rule but the literal compiler output) ldc.i4.0 I guess the moral of this story is that bool is int

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                          Jon McKee
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                          Interesting. Looking at the CLI Specification[^] I.8.2.2 on page 46 that makes sense. Under all the abstraction it's an integer type.

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                          • M Marc Clifton

                            bool isOffset = new bool();
                            if (reader["foo"].ToString().ToUpper().Trim() == "BAR")
                            isOffset = true;
                            else
                            isOffset = false;

                            I'll stop now. Marc

                            V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802

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                            Bernhard Hiller
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                            Well, look: a variable must be initialized before it can be used. Now just imagine: somehow a third possibility comes into existence which is not covered by that if ... else - now you'll run into an error when you access isOffset because it was not initialized. :^)

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                              Well, look: a variable must be initialized before it can be used. Now just imagine: somehow a third possibility comes into existence which is not covered by that if ... else - now you'll run into an error when you access isOffset because it was not initialized. :^)

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                              OriginalGriff
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                              So you want

                              if (...)
                              ...
                              else
                              ...
                              maybe
                              ...

                              :laugh:

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                              • M Marc Clifton

                                bool isOffset = new bool();
                                if (reader["foo"].ToString().ToUpper().Trim() == "BAR")
                                isOffset = true;
                                else
                                isOffset = false;

                                I'll stop now. Marc

                                V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802

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                                Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter
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                                • M Marc Clifton

                                  bool isOffset = new bool();
                                  if (reader["foo"].ToString().ToUpper().Trim() == "BAR")
                                  isOffset = true;
                                  else
                                  isOffset = false;

                                  I'll stop now. Marc

                                  V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802

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                                  Mike Hankey
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                                  bool IsOffSet = new bool { improved };

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                                  • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                    So you want

                                    if (...)
                                    ...
                                    else
                                    ...
                                    maybe
                                    ...

                                    :laugh:

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                                    Jorgen Andersson
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                                    Reminds me of the fuzzy logic that was so popular in the beginning of the nineties.

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                                    • M Marc Clifton

                                      Well, the whole thing could be reduced to

                                      bool isOffset = reader["foo"].ToString().ToUpper().Trim() == "BAR";

                                      Why couldn't the programmer see that? Why didn't someone in the 2+ years that this code has been in production fix it? Marc

                                      V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802

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                                      Johnny YYZ
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                                      Marc Clifton wrote:

                                      Well, the whole thing could be reduced to

                                      I guess it can if reader["foo"] can never return null.

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                                      • J Johnny YYZ

                                        Marc Clifton wrote:

                                        Well, the whole thing could be reduced to

                                        I guess it can if reader["foo"] can never return null.

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                                        Jeremy Falcon
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                                        So, just for my own understanding then, something like this would be better then correct? ...

                                        bool isOffset = (reader["foo"]?.ToString().ToUpper().Trim() == "BAR") ?? false;

                                        Jeremy Falcon

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                                        • M Marc Clifton

                                          Well, the whole thing could be reduced to

                                          bool isOffset = reader["foo"].ToString().ToUpper().Trim() == "BAR";

                                          Why couldn't the programmer see that? Why didn't someone in the 2+ years that this code has been in production fix it? Marc

                                          V.A.P.O.R.ware - Visual Assisted Programming / Organizational Representation Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802

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                                          Marc Clifton wrote:

                                          Why couldn't the programmer see that? Why didn't someone in the 2+ years that this code has been in production fix it?

                                          I have always predicted that this type would show up on the scene sooner or later and, by now, have seen them in action often enough. They actually do as they were told and avoided memory management at all cost. That is why they have no understanding what value types and reference types are all about, nor do they have any idea how value types are an illusion created by the compiler to spare us having to wrestle with references and check for null for every variable. To them these things make no sense and appear to be some random and arcane rules which have been inherited from languages of the past. The same goes for logical operators. I have given up on trying to help the kids when they can't get it done. They think that's more of this arcane ancient stuff that nobody needs to know anymore. Letting them figure it out themselves is the only way to convince them otherwise. So be it.

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