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Almost looks autogenerated.
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new Comment.append( new Comment.append( new Comment.append( new Comment.append( new Comment.append( new Comment.append("Hey, if it compiles...").ToString() .ToString() .ToString() .ToString() .ToString() .ToString();Admin
Looks like it used to be a simple string concatenation, but the coder was told to use StringBuilder(/Buffer) instead. So he did.
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Loos like a search/replace of "String" with "StringBuffer".
But yeah, if I saw that in some code I'd definitely say WTF?
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Maybe copy&pasted from a decompilation. I've seen these constructs show up when decompiling Java classes. And it already happened that a source got lost so it was "reconstructed" by decompiling the class-file.
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At least it's thread-safe.
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Especially noteworthy is the actual chaining of 2 consecutive .append() calls to the same instance in the middle. Sort of breaks the flow, so to speak.
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.append("Robert'); DROP TABLE students;--").ToString()
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The real WTF is a language where they provide fast string concatenation -- but instead do it the stupid way by default
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Sheesh. This isn't even dotnet. This is the ancient and honorable thread-safe Java StringBuffer class. Maybe this is a hardware diagnostic for interlocked thread-safe instructions.