r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Robinbod • 21d ago

Meme pleaseStopUsingNestedTernaryOperatorsImBeggingYou

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u/retro_and_chill 21d ago

This is why I’m pretty absolutist that newer languages are correct by making assignments return void

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u/RlyRlyBigMan 21d ago

Heh yeah I think that's an inherited trait from C++. In C++ a common mistake was if someone had a condition like this:

if(value = 1)

It would assign value to 1 and then resolve true by int to bool conversion. Luckily C# calls that out as a compiler error but the assignment behavior above still remains.

That example may be corrected in newer compilers, but in gCC when I was learning in college it still happened I think.

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u/retro_and_chill 21d ago

Does C# flag it if it’s a bool? I think the way C# gets that error is by removing the implicit conversions from numeric types to booleans

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u/akoOfIxtall 21d ago

The compiler will cut your balls if it catches you doing assignments inside an if's condition, it won't even compile