DaWei

I recently saw an example of a "design pattern". This pattern used 151 lines of code (281, counting comments) to provide a class that could store or return one of the values, True, or False.

An example of invocation?
I really think I could beat this with a bool or an int.

Don't fall for BS; think for yourselves. Support it by learning, not by high-priestly worship of false, self-anointed gurus. You don't need to kiss the hem of their robe, much less their ass, if you just look around and think.

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Narue

That's an impressive WTF. Did you find it in real code, or is it a joke?

>I really think I could beat this with a bool or an int.
How? It looks like that code is just a glorified no-op, if all it does is compare the string against "YES" and ignore the result.

>Don't fall for BS; think for yourselves.
That reminds me of the time that I laughed in a guy's face when he explained design patterns to me.

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null_ptr0

He found it, it was in someone's sig.

Dameon

TextEncoding.getSystemDefault().createTextWriter(
     EnvironmentManager.getDefaultInstance().
         getStandardIOFactory().createOutputStream()).
     write(LocalizationManager.getInstance().
         getTranslatedStringForCurrentCulture("Hello World").
         concat(EnvironmentManager.getSystemNewLine()));

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DaWei

It wasn't in someone's sig. It was a blog post on a blog called something similar to "How ugly is this." It's nice to know you aren't really looking over my shoulder, or living in my head, null. I'm too young to commit suicide.

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ZenMasterJG

It was on The Daily WTF earlier this month. Great blog.

Edit: Oh, right, its called "Worse Than Failure" now. I liked the old name better.

Harakim

Maybe that class parses values for yes and no, i.e

"yes" -> "Yes"
"y" -> "Yes"
"true" -> "Yes"
"definitely" -> "Yes"


In which case, 151 lines of code may not be bad.

DaWei

Well, son, whatever you think. I'm sure you can find a fool to cut your a check for a few cents on the dollar....

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ZenMasterJG

If thats the case, its a solution to a problem that should not have existed in the first place. And if you did have to solve it, you could use a one line regex instead of some big ugly behemoth.

King

If someone actually did that they would have to be mentally retarded, and even then it would not be acceptable.

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