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Aug 2018

Tern This Statement Around and Go Home

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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:

30 comments - Last comment @ 2018-08-16

Constantly True

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An anonymous reader had something to share.

"I came across this code in a 13,000 line file called Constants.cs."

31 comments - Last comment @ 2018-08-10
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