Most head-slapping feature in a language
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@Forogar and I were having a chat about unintended programming features (ahem) due to things like: Javascript's truthy:
"1" == 1 is trueRexx:" Hello " == "Hello" and 0.0 == 0 is not the same as 0 == 0.0SQL:Len("hello") = Len("hello ")I'm just wondering what other family favourites there are out there. (Edited because clearly I’ve lost track of what’s up and what’s down)cheers Chris Maunder
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@Forogar and I were having a chat about unintended programming features (ahem) due to things like: Javascript's truthy:
"1" == 1 is trueRexx:" Hello " == "Hello" and 0.0 == 0 is not the same as 0 == 0.0SQL:Len("hello") = Len("hello ")I'm just wondering what other family favourites there are out there. (Edited because clearly I’ve lost track of what’s up and what’s down)cheers Chris Maunder
In the old fortran stuff: 3 = 9 And change the value of 3 to 9 (Because some nimrod decided to declare numeric constants as variables?) LMAO. But they fix everything by adding an =, so we get =, ==, ===... I am waiting to read some code:
if (x ======= y) // equal on 7 planes of existence
and
if (x ======== y) // A fuzzy version of the above allowing for LESS Equality to be Equal, LMAO
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@Forogar and I were having a chat about unintended programming features (ahem) due to things like: Javascript's truthy:
"1" == 1 is trueRexx:" Hello " == "Hello" and 0.0 == 0 is not the same as 0 == 0.0SQL:Len("hello") = Len("hello ")I'm just wondering what other family favourites there are out there. (Edited because clearly I’ve lost track of what’s up and what’s down)cheers Chris Maunder
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erm, typo?
"1" === 1 is false
"1" == 1 is true (truthy rather)I don’t even know anymore. I’m so confused.
cheers Chris Maunder
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Re-read the OP. Chris didn't state he was going to slap his own head .... :laugh:
Y'all need to re-read my comment. Never did imply nor explicitly express Chris did or would do that. :doh:
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@Forogar and I were having a chat about unintended programming features (ahem) due to things like: Javascript's truthy:
"1" == 1 is trueRexx:" Hello " == "Hello" and 0.0 == 0 is not the same as 0 == 0.0SQL:Len("hello") = Len("hello ")I'm just wondering what other family favourites there are out there. (Edited because clearly I’ve lost track of what’s up and what’s down)cheers Chris Maunder
I just loved seeing C/C++ code from colleagues too lazy to comment out a block of code (and letting it sit there for years) via: #if 0 ... #endif I should just go back to clean it out, but now it's nostalgic for me. :-)
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I don’t even know anymore. I’m so confused.
cheers Chris Maunder
Wait 5 years. It will be:
"1" ============== 1
As in, "I really really really really really really really really really want to know if it's really really really really really really really really somewhat mildly truthy."
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I had a colleague who insisted on occasionally writing the (perfectly valid but ummm counter-intuitive) form
index[array]
in C. He also worked out some multi-dimensional extensions, which my marginal brain is too small to contain. And yes, he did have a shot at the The International Obfuscated C Code Contest[^] Cheers, Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
Yes, I was (long ago) proudly shown char c = i["Some string"];
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I had a colleague who insisted on occasionally writing the (perfectly valid but ummm counter-intuitive) form
index[array]
in C. He also worked out some multi-dimensional extensions, which my marginal brain is too small to contain. And yes, he did have a shot at the The International Obfuscated C Code Contest[^] Cheers, Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
Yes, I was (long ago) proudly shown char c = i["Some string"]; - perfectly valid if not immediately obvious to the beginner.
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I had a colleague who insisted on occasionally writing the (perfectly valid but ummm counter-intuitive) form
index[array]
in C. He also worked out some multi-dimensional extensions, which my marginal brain is too small to contain. And yes, he did have a shot at the The International Obfuscated C Code Contest[^] Cheers, Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
I had never thought about pointer arithmetic being commutative before... seems consistent at least. int index = 1; char *address = "String"; index[address] is the same as *(index + address) address[index] is the same as *(address + index) + implicitly includes the size of the base data type. (char) If this was attempted with variables instead of constants, you might end up with memory protection issues. Most OSes would not want you to start a loop by loading memory address 1 into a register. They would let you load the memory address of "String"
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@Forogar and I were having a chat about unintended programming features (ahem) due to things like: Javascript's truthy:
"1" == 1 is trueRexx:" Hello " == "Hello" and 0.0 == 0 is not the same as 0 == 0.0SQL:Len("hello") = Len("hello ")I'm just wondering what other family favourites there are out there. (Edited because clearly I’ve lost track of what’s up and what’s down)cheers Chris Maunder
On Error Resume Next
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Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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I remember being frustrated by the fact C# 1.0 had a default container called ArrayList. Is it an Array, or a List? These are very different things. Is it a fancy container that somehow has worked out how to get the benefits of both? The documentation never said.
Christian Graus wrote:
The documentation never said
The very reason I never used the stupid thing.
Software Zen:
delete this;