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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

Post your Best, your worst, and your most interesting. But please - no programming questions . This forum is purely for amusement and discussions on code snippets. All actual programming questions will be removed.

 
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Pablo Aliskevicius13-Jun-13 3:53
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I usually prefer:
C++
if (42 == ComputeSomeThing(x)) {
//...
}

This one avoids the = against == pit.
Another thing I do: my IDE is configured to show operators (like '(){};,+-=...') in color, so they are a bit harder to miss (like the original example).
There are two other tools that can help with this: compiler warnings, and static code analysis.

JM2B,
Pablo.

"Accident: An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws." (Ambrose Bierce, circa 1899).

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