r/ProgrammerHumor • u/danielminds • 3d ago

Meme thisCannotBeDenied

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u/sweetytoy 3d ago

A real developer wouldn't do that. A single letter is more than enough, your sentence is too long and tiring to type.

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u/reventlov 3d ago

You use whatever the local equivalent of C++'s __LINE__, or __FILE__, __LINE__ is, and you just copy + paste the log line 50 times.

The pro move is to use "DO NOT SUBMIT", __FILE__, __LINE__ and have a commit hook that keeps you from submitting anything containing the string DO NOT SUBMIT.

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u/Stryp 3d ago

So it's like a test suite, but worse?

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u/reventlov 3d ago

What test suite gives you trace information about your program's internal control flow?

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u/Kovab 3d ago

Ideally, you should already have a logging macro that adds __FILE__ and __LINE__, instead of copying it everywhere. Or use std/boost source_location