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Friday, January 3, 2014

No Excuse For Code Abuse

What would cause anyone but a complete raving idiot to write Java like this?
if ("D".equals(action))
    action = "D";
...
if ("I".equals(action))
   action = "I";
...
if ("U".equals(action))
    action = "U";

6 comments:

  1. Paid by the line + no code review => Profit!

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  2. Unboxing? Or maybe debugging lines to set break points on.

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  3. Maybe there's some weird typecasting action going on behind the scenes there. char vs String.

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  4. This may be have translated from another computer language by a program that was also buggy.

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  5. Joseph: I wish that this was the case. The highly paid consultants that wrote much of this code did lots of stuff not even this clever.

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