Tuesday 6 July 2010

Complete bafflement

I'm just completely baffled by this piece of code I just found in one of our classes:

Seriously, what the fuck is that about? How is that clearer, cleaner, better or more reliable than just making the three calls in a row? I can understand trying to refactor it out into something more clever and more expressive, but this is just wordy crap that obscures what you're doing.

Some days, I despair ...

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