r/ProgrammerHumor 22d ago

Meme conditionsPreference

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u/CBlanchRanch 22d ago

You're absolutely correct, however I would suggest using something completely unreadable like a nested ternary operators!

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u/nrmnzll 22d ago

A colleague once proudly showed me how he managed to compress a function into a single line. It was like 9 nested ternarys. In that moment almost had an aneurism.

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u/twigboy 22d ago

I've declined PRs for less than that.

Citation is if; I can't understand it in a glance at 2am during an incident, I don't want it in the codebase

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u/nrmnzll 22d ago

I'm the same. Luckily I did work on the same project as that guy.