The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

2007-02-20 Reply Admin

Why, that's practically a Brazillian lines of code.

2007-02-21 Reply Admin

Nicolas V.:
His PHP was very very basic and he never learned about the existence of SWITCH (which is a very universal mnemonic).

Well, most BASICs use Select...Case.

2007-02-21 Reply Admin

THIS would be MUCH better!

MyValue = 0 ? &MyValue = MyValue : MyValue = 1 ? &MyValue = MyValue : MyValue = 2 ? &MyValue = MyValue : MyValue = 3 ? &MyValue = MyValue : MyValue = 4 ? &MyValue = MyValue : MyValue = 5 ? &MyValue = MyValue : MyValue = 6 ? &MyValue = MyValue : MyValue = 7 ? &MyValue = MyValue : break;

2007-02-21 Reply Admin

I suspect OCD.

2007-02-21 Reply Admin

Some others have noted above that it's possible the original code was written with the intent that the requirements would change for each value between 1 and 7.

But surely a "Select Case" structure would have been more efficient?

2007-02-21 Reply Admin

This equivalent code is 16% shorter (and 50% narrower).

Var MyTemp longint EndVar
  MyTemp = MyValue
  If MyTemp = 7
    MyTemp = 6
  EndIf
  If MyTemp = 6
    MyTemp = 5
  EndIf
  If MyTemp = 5
    MyTemp = 4
  EndIf
  If MyTemp = 4
    MyTemp = 3
  EndIf
  If MyTemp = 3
    MyTemp = 2
  EndIf
  If MyTemp = 2
    MyTemp = 1
  EndIf
  If MyTemp = 1
    MyTemp = 0
  EndIf
  If MyTemp = 0
    &MyValueDes = MyValueDes
  EndIf

-Harrow.

2007-02-21 Reply Admin

Trevel:
I've seen worse.
Take the same code and throw a

For (MyValue==0;MyValue<=7;MyValue++)

or whatever language equivalent around it and then you'll have REAL fun.

You must be one of my coworkers then. I found exactly that during a review of some consultant's code the other day.

The number was 30 instead of 7 though, and there were no else statements, so all conditions would be evaluated for every iteration.

2007-02-21 Reply Admin

Nicolas V.:
His PHP was very very basic and he never learned about the existence of SWITCH (which is a very universal mnemonic).

Am I the only one wondering what SWITCH is a mnemonic for?

SWITCH Word Is The Crazy Heuristic

And what about "very universal"? Is it possible to be more universal than ... universal? Once something is universal, isn't that pretty much it? Where do you go from there?

2007-02-21 Reply Admin

I think I have a better one. I once saw this in some VB code I was maintaining

if (((VAL1=VAL2)=true)=true) then....

Not a joke. We paid these guys $100.00 per hour for stuff like this.

--PatF

2007-02-22 Reply Admin

Could be FoxPro!

2007-02-23 Reply Admin

dear god you guys laugh at that code then half of you cant write it better... my verison in vb: if (myValue <= 7) and (myValue >= 0) and (int(myValue) = myValue) then &MyValueDes = MyValueDes end if

however my real question is what lanuage is this really, because in vb &MyValueDes = MyValueDes is redundent

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