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Classic WTF - One Bad Ternary Operator Deserves Another

by Mark Bowytz in Representative Line on 2014-12-31

Last day of 2014 means it's time to check out another year-end "Best Of WTF" article from earlier this year. Enjoy!

Personally, in all my years of application development, I have had zero use of ternary operators.

39 comments - Last comment @ 2015-01-05

Nasal String Length

by Remy Porter in Representative Line on 2014-12-03

Dariusz isn’t sure what this line of code was meant to do. At his best guess, it was supposed to find an improperly terminated C string and add a null terminator character after it:

buf[strlen(buf)] = '\0';

99 comments - Last comment @ 2014-12-07

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