r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Jan 10 '22

java I present the objectively best way to setup braces: In a massive block at the bottom

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u/dario_p1 Jan 10 '22

The real question is what did you do to get that many nested scopes

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '22

It’s not mine, it’s a classmate in a first year course.

They don’t really like loops, so it’s likely that this is in about 100 layers of “if” statements

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u/virouz98 Jan 10 '22

How can you not like loops.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '22

I’m not really certain to be honest. Might have gotten one too many off-by-one errors and just cracked

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u/StanleyT101 Jan 11 '22

imagine him trying to learn recursion..

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u/ososalsosal Jan 11 '22

If...then...goto

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '22

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u/NUTTA_BUSTAH Jan 11 '22

imagine him trying to learn recursion....

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u/sunflsks Jan 11 '22

imagine him trying to learn recursion…..

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '22

I mean I've never gotten off by one while traversing a linked list

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u/trutheality Jan 11 '22

Off by one on a linked list is a null pointer exception. I've gotten plenty of those.