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Code Snippet Of the Day (CodeSOD) features interesting and usually incorrect code snippets taken from actual production code in a commercial and/or open source software projects.
Today we have a true confession from Carl W. It has the benefit of being in R, which means that at a glance, I just assume "eh, looks fine to me." I guess I'm turning into Jimbo.
But let's dig into it. Carl's first snippet is this:
Frequent contributor Argle Bargle (recently, or even in last week's Errord) works with a programmer called "Jimbo". Jimbo is a solid co-worker and a good programmer. He has more tenure at the company than Argle, which means Jimbo is who Argle goes to when he has questions.
Recently, Argle worked his way through a rather complicated bit of code. It involved passing data between two different languages inside of a real-time system. Much of its functionality was opaque and complicated, so Argle wrote literal paragraphs of documentation explaining what the code did, how to invoke it, what the gotchas might be, and how to avoid them.
It's common to see code in the form of if (false == true). We get a fair bit of it in our inbox, and we generally don't post it often, because, well, it's usually just a sign that someone generated the code. There's a WTF in that, somewhere, but there's not much to say about the code, beyond, "Don't generate code, pass data from backend to frontend instead."
But Nicholas sends us one that shows a little more of interest in it.
Dec 25