Comment On The Table Selector

It's still much much clearer and straight forward than Hibernate, especially if they make you use Spring with it too

bored_again:

There once was a man who wore glasses.
Who wrapped all his tables in classes.
With an interface to explain.
From implementing I will refrain.
I'll be laughing till they burn me to ashes.

There once was a fool who wrote limericks
But as for scansion was particularly dimericks
There were more syllables than were needed
And without humour were these limericks seeded
And he couldn't ever get the final line to rhymericks.

Did you know that nothing rhymes with the adjective "gullible"?

Maltz:

fab:

is WTF considered an adjective?

Perhaps "acronym" does NOT cross language barriers. :)

Acronym denotes something pronouncable, like RADIUS. You mean abbreviation, of which acronym is a subset.

Guess what? I got a fever, and the only prescription is more XML!

I hate to be pedantic, but WTF is an initialisation and not an acronym. AIDS is an acronym because you say it like a word. But since you pronounce each letter of WTF, it's not an acronym.

grammar nazi:

I hate to be pedantic, but WTF is an initialisation and not an acronym. AIDS is an acronym because you say it like a word. But since you pronounce each letter of WTF, it's not an acronym.

So what's your take on 'SQL'?

@Deprecated:

grammar nazi:

I hate to be pedantic, but WTF is an initialisation and not an acronym. AIDS is an acronym because you say it like a word. But since you pronounce each letter of WTF, it's not an acronym.

So what's your take on 'SQL'?

Pronounced "squeal".

TheSHEEEP:

... and it is an interface, which means that someone wanted other people to inherit this.. kot.

FTFY

trtrwtf:

@Deprecated:

grammar nazi:

I hate to be pedantic, but WTF is an initialisation and not an acronym. AIDS is an acronym because you say it like a word. But since you pronounce each letter of WTF, it's not an acronym.

So what's your take on 'SQL'?

Pronounced "squeal".

that is sound pigs make.

you should call it "Cee Quell" said with soft s and hard k sound.

Chelloveck:

Martin:

For those few readers who are not fluent in colloquial german: quäl-kot translates to "torment feces"

I'm still wondering what "famous three-letter explicit adjective" crosses language barriers...

D'oh?

Martin:

For those few readers who are not fluent in colloquial german: quäl-kot translates to "torment feces"

Trust the Germans to have a phrase for that.

grammar nazi:

I hate to be pedantic, but WTF is an initialisation and not an acronym. AIDS is an acronym because you say it like a word. But since you pronounce each letter of WTF, it's not an acronym.

It's "initialism."

Rhyme Time:

Did you know that nothing rhymes with the adjective "gullible"?

Yes, but that's negligible

@Deprecated:

grammar nazi:

I hate to be pedantic, but WTF is an initialisation and not an acronym. AIDS is an acronym because you say it like a word. But since you pronounce each letter of WTF, it's not an acronym.

So what's your take on 'SQL'?

Personally:

S

Q

L

I thought about:
LOL as in lol cat, or lol code (101 code?)
WOW as in wow wow wow
BAD as in bad code (bed code?)
CPP as in c++ code

Anyway, I must admit that WTF crossed at least Polish border, but we usually pronounce it voo-te-eff (with e as in tent).

@Deprecated:

grammar nazi:

I hate to be pedantic, but WTF is an initialisation and not an acronym. AIDS is an acronym because you say it like a word. But since you pronounce each letter of WTF, it's not an acronym.

So what's your take on 'SQL'?

Officially, it's supposed to be pronounced like an initialism. However, pronouncing it as "sequel" is common and the initial name was SEQUEL back in the 70s and changed due to a trademark problem. Some oddballs do, as noted previously, say "squeal" like a pig. "Cee quell" makes no sense to my ears, however and have never heard any one else pronounce it like that. (And if you think "cee quell" is equivalent to "sequel" then your William Shatner impression must be a hoot.)

It's pronounced "squill", doi.

qbolec:

I thought about:
LOL as in lol cat, or lol code (101 code?)
WOW as in wow wow wow
BAD as in bad code (bed code?)
CPP as in c++ code

Anyway, I must admit that WTF crossed at least Polish border, but we usually pronounce it voo-te-eff (with e as in tent).

But "bad" means "bath" in German. Doesn't quite work the same way.

Unicorn #8157:

@Deprecated:

grammar nazi:

I hate to be pedantic, but WTF is an initialisation and not an acronym. AIDS is an acronym because you say it like a word. But since you pronounce each letter of WTF, it's not an acronym.

So what's your take on 'SQL'?

Officially, it's supposed to be pronounced like an initialism. However, pronouncing it as "sequel" is common and the initial name was SEQUEL back in the 70s and changed due to a trademark problem. Some oddballs do, as noted previously, say "squeal" like a pig. "Cee quell" makes no sense to my ears, however and have never heard any one else pronounce it like that. (And if you think "cee quell" is equivalent to "sequel" then your William Shatner impression must be a hoot.)

yeah well who the fuck is William Shatner and who gives a shit anyway?

Matt Westwood:

yeah well who the fuck is William Shatner and who gives a shit anyway?

He is.. just like.. Matt Westwood... only he... cusses.. less!

qbolec:

Rhyme Time:

Did you know that nothing rhymes with the adjective "gullible"?

Yes, but that's negligible

Your opinion is nullable.

Leo:

Coder:

WTF is technically not an acronym, since it doesn't form an existing word. (An example of an actual acronym would be COOL for Cool Object-Oriented Language.) As such, WTF is an initialism.

Doesn't have to be an existing word, just something that is pronounced as a word, and not as individual letters.

Right. Examples of acronyms that form pronounceable words that did not previously exist include SCUBA, LASER and RADAR.

The status of UFO depends upon what country you're in; in the US it's an initialism but in the UK it's an acronym. Same with CICS and in some circles, URL.

Nagesh:

We all see such examples of code in source code repositories of projects we work with. It is nice to know that national originality of person does not matter when it come to mess up code.

F--- off, idiot. When I want your (wrong) opinion, I'll ask for it.

grammar nazi:

I hate to be pedantic...

Patently false.

Please feature Roby's comment. It just made me "WTF" all over my keyboard

There you go, it's a verb

Roby McAndrew:

I <3 scala:

Acronyms have to form a pronounceable word.

"WTF" is onomatopoeic. It is the sound of coffee being sprayed over keyboard.

** MUST LEARN HOW TO QUOTE **

Please feature Roby's comment. It just made me "WTF" all over my keyboard

There you go, it's a verb

da Doctah:

The status of UFO depends upon what country you're in; in the US it's an initialism but in the UK it's an acronym. Same with CICS and in some circles, URL.

People who say "ooorrlll" instead of U R L make me want to HURL.

KattMan:

Matt Westwood:

yeah well who the fuck is William Shatner and who gives a shit anyway?

He is.. just like.. Matt Westwood... only he... cusses.. less!

Cusses less? He must be a bit of a cunt, then.

Rhyme Time:

Did you know that nothing rhymes with the adjective "gullible"?

"Thurible" comes close.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurible

Ralph:

da Doctah:

The status of UFO depends upon what country you're in; in the US it's an initialism but in the UK it's an acronym. Same with CICS and in some circles, URL.

People who say "ooorrlll" instead of U R L make me want to HURL.

And certain political movements in the UK want to pronounce UK as an acronym. "What's it like there?" "UK! Don't ask!"

Actually - it's a tad bit messier than that - it's an interface which means someone wants you to _implement_ this mess. So you need to know is expected for table4a as well as table4b.

Anketam:

Needs a selectTable2a and selectTable2b, that way I could make a horribly abused joke about is it Table2b or not 2b?

I notice the lack didn't stop you

This is far too complex. It should be just one method:

public interface ITableSelector

{

    string selectTable(string s);

}

That way, the code could be improved by designating a table with a string, such as:

string s = ITableSelector->selectTable("4b");

See, the way it was in the article, it's too hard to conceal which tables are being selected where.

(Shudder.)

pedagogical pedant:

It's not an abbreviation, [...] it is without doubt an initialism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym_and_initialism#Nomenclature

I love a nice bit of pedantry, and of course the best kind is nitpicking the pedantry of other pedants.

From the start of the article you linked to:
"Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations..."

QJo:

bored_again:

There once was a man who wore glasses.
Who wrapped all his tables in classes.
With an interface to explain.
From implementing I will refrain.
I'll be laughing till they burn me to ashes.

There once was a fool who wrote limericks
But as for scansion was particularly dimericks
There were more syllables than were needed
And without humour were these limericks seeded
And he couldn't ever get the final line to rhymericks.

Said a Sassenach back in Dun Laoghaire
"I pay homage to nationalist thaoghaire,
But wherever I drobh
I found signposts that strobh
To make touring in Ireland so draoghaire."

Coder:

WTF is technically not an acronym, since it doesn't form an existing word. (An example of an actual acronym would be COOL for Cool Object-Oriented Language.) As such, WTF is an initialism.

Almost, COOL was "Common Object Oriented Language".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Engineering_Facility

And why is the DailyWTF calling this spam? I'm sure as hell not going to recommend that anybody use cool:gen.

Flann O'Brien:

QJo:

bored_again:

There once was a man who wore glasses.
Who wrapped all his tables in classes.
With an interface to explain.
From implementing I will refrain.
I'll be laughing till they burn me to ashes.

There once was a fool who wrote limericks
But as for scansion was particularly dimericks
There were more syllables than were needed
And without humour were these limericks seeded
And he couldn't ever get the final line to rhymericks.

Said a Sassenach back in Dun Laoghaire
"I pay homage to nationalist thaoghaire,
But wherever I drobh
I found signposts that strobh
To make touring in Ireland so draoghaire."

+1

Hadn't heard that one before.

There once was a Yank in the UK
He'd been there since back in Y2K
While the girls made him smile
The food was quite vile
And the beer was utterly pUK

Born Oklahoma Proud:

Nagesh:

We all see such examples of code in source code repositories of projects we work with. It is nice to know that national originality of person does not matter when it come to mess up code.

F--- off, idiot. When I want your (wrong) opinion, I'll ask for it.

You must be new here. I've got to side with real Nagesh on this one. TDWTF has taught us "Good ol' down home" American coders can do worse. Also Chinese.

Matt Westwood:

KattMan:

Matt Westwood:

yeah well who the fuck is William Shatner and who gives a shit anyway?

He is.. just like.. Matt Westwood... only he... cusses.. less!

Cusses less? He must be a bit of a cunt, then.

No, you seem confused. Shatner is the one of you who's not a cunt.

vereor: should my browser be auto-filling the CAPTCHA?

I'm Austrian and back at school our teacher often mentioned code pieces which translates to Code Stückerl, but Code is pronounced like Kot which means shit. The whole class always giggled when the teacher mentioned working with shit chunklets.

Swiss-German is such an ugly language :p

I really wonder what's returned when you select one of these gorgeous tables in the interface. Maybe the name of the only column in that table? Or "ok" and "not ok"?

My eye started twitching when I read that.

Born Oklahoma Proud:

Nagesh:

We all see such examples of code in source code repositories of projects we work with. It is nice to know that national originality of person does not matter when it come to mess up code.

F--- off, idiot. When I want your (wrong) opinion, I'll ask for it.

<b>You can't still say fuck?</b>

Andrew:

Born Oklahoma Proud:

Nagesh:

We all see such examples of code in source code repositories of projects we work with. It is nice to know that national originality of person does not matter when it come to mess up code.

F--- off, idiot. When I want your (wrong) opinion, I'll ask for it.

You must be new here. I've got to side with real Nagesh on this one. TDWTF has taught us "Good ol' down home" American coders can do worse. Also Chinese.

Everyone messes up code. That's plain fact. As plain as everyone on this planet screws, except for the Pope, of course.

I'm one of Christian's co-workers, and yes, we really have methods like selectTable2a() etc. It is only one of a whole bunch of interfaces like this.

Matt Westwood:

Unicorn #8157:

@Deprecated:

grammar nazi:

I hate to be pedantic, but WTF is an initialisation and not an acronym. AIDS is an acronym because you say it like a word. But since you pronounce each letter of WTF, it's not an acronym.

So what's your take on 'SQL'?

Officially, it's supposed to be pronounced like an initialism. However, pronouncing it as "sequel" is common and the initial name was SEQUEL back in the 70s and changed due to a trademark problem. Some oddballs do, as noted previously, say "squeal" like a pig. "Cee quell" makes no sense to my ears, however and have never heard any one else pronounce it like that. (And if you think "cee quell" is equivalent to "sequel" then your William Shatner impression must be a hoot.)

yeah well who the fuck is William Shatner and who gives a shit anyway?

He discoverd...strange new worlds...while Chris...topher Columbus dis...covered a world that was already discovered! [/epicrapbattlereference]

CAPTCHA: caecus - A circus for cakes

Severity One:

It would have indeed been more elegant if you could invoke a single method with the name of the table stored in an enum.

I'm glad you've never seen your suggestion put to use in an enterprisy application.


void SelectTable(TableEnum targetTable)
{
switch(targetTable)
{
case TableEnum.ONE:
// snip 20 lines
case TableEnum.TWO:
// .....
//.......
case TableEnum.NinetySix:....
}
}