Ternary Abuse

[leeor_net]

This was painful to read. Ouch.

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/as-the-world-ternaries

[Hooman]

Lol. Bonus for adding that nonsense right next to already working code.


That kind of reminds me how new programmers tend to write:

Code: [Select]

bool flag;
if (notTerriblyComplicatedConditionExpression) {
  flag = true;
} else {
  flag = false;
}

Rather than the more compact:

Code: [Select]

bool flag = notTerriblyComplicatedConditionExpression;

[leeor_net]

I'm sure I've been guilty of that sort of beginner mistake in my hay days as a fledgling programmer.

[Hooman]

We've all been guilty of that one.

Was great to see the light when I first learned you could just assign like that.

[leeor_net]

I remember coming up with something like that and thinking "There has to be a better way to do this" and realizing all of a sudden in that moment that I could use the expression itself as a yes or no type deal.