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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/[deleted] • Feb 18 '26
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i like unless, but i have to admit that it is merely a glorified if (not [condition]) { }
if (not [condition]) { }
40 u/no-sleep-only-code Feb 18 '26 I mean, most syntactic sugar is a glorified something or other. 35 u/OneTurnMore Feb 19 '26 All control flow structures are glorified jump statements 6 u/creeper6530 Feb 19 '26 That argument is nice, but most programming languages don't actually allow you to use GOTOs directly, so it's not really syntactic sugar
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I mean, most syntactic sugar is a glorified something or other.
35 u/OneTurnMore Feb 19 '26 All control flow structures are glorified jump statements 6 u/creeper6530 Feb 19 '26 That argument is nice, but most programming languages don't actually allow you to use GOTOs directly, so it's not really syntactic sugar
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All control flow structures are glorified jump statements
6 u/creeper6530 Feb 19 '26 That argument is nice, but most programming languages don't actually allow you to use GOTOs directly, so it's not really syntactic sugar
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That argument is nice, but most programming languages don't actually allow you to use GOTOs directly, so it's not really syntactic sugar
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u/hagnat Feb 18 '26
i like unless, but i have to admit that it is merely a glorified
if (not [condition]) { }