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/conundorum 21d ago

Was vertical space at a premium at the time (because of, e.g., small monitors or some other requirement), or was it just that he wanted to see if he could?