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A single line of code from a large application that somehow manages to provide an almost endless insight into the pain that its maintainers face each day.
Sean's ongoing career as a consultant keeps supplying him with amazing code.
Let's talk about encapsulation. We put getters and setters around our objects internalsto help keep our code modular. Given an object, we call something like getUsername to extract a piece of that object safely.
When looking for representative lines, ternaries are almost easy mode. While there’s nothing wrong with a good ternary expression, they have a bad reputation because they can quickly drift out towards “utterly unreadable”.
Or, sometimes, they can drift towards “incredibly stupid”. This anonymous submission is a pretty brazen example of the latter:
An anonymous reader had something to share.
"I came across this code in a 13,000 line file called Constants.cs."
Jul 18