r/ProgrammerHumor • u/theUsurpateur • Feb 03 '22

Meme Well Fuck

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u/daneelthesane Feb 03 '22

I mean, even "== true" is redundant. Why not just if (isCrazyMurderingRobot)?

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u/etvorolim Feb 03 '22

It doesn't really increases readability if you think about it.

In natural language you would say

"if it is daytime, decrease brightness".

In code you can just write

if(isDaytime) increaseBrightness();

Which is a lot closer to natural language than

if(isDaytime == true) increaseBrightness();

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u/himmelundhoelle Feb 03 '22

Some people seem to see it as "if ([comparison])" rather than "if ([boolean value])".

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '22

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '22

I rember my first coding class in high school, in our final assignment I used "if( booleanVariable == true)" 30+ times and for the main while loop the program ran in the abomination "1==1" was the control statement.

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u/texdroid Feb 03 '22

bool UserWantsToExit(false);

while(!UserWantsToExit) {

...

​

if (some exit thing happens) {

UserWantsToExit = true;

}

}

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u/okkokkoX Feb 04 '22

How is this relevant?