Recent Coded Smorgasbord

Inspired by the Pop-up Potpourri, the examples presented here aren't necessarily "bad" code nor do they imply the miserable failure that we're all used to reading here. The examples are more-or-less fun snippets of code like ones that we've all written at one time or another.

May 2009

Defensive Programming and a Whole Lot More

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"Some programmers like to program defensively," wrote Sam, "and then there's some of my coworkers. This is found at the top of nearly every function of our C++ classes."

if (!this) return false;