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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Cavern of COBOL > Coding Horrors: You can gather all your technical debt into one easy framework!
 
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Mashi
Aug 15, 2005

Just wanted you to know your dinner's cold and the children all agree you're a shitheel!

aeiou posted:

I have seen this a couple times in code at work and i fail to understand HOW people come up with this. And then afterword not realize that they could just have put all the statements in a row? Am I missing something here?

Being in a loop, you get to make use of the break keyword, and you have an iterator variable (i) which indicates which step was achieved... I used it once or twice like that anyway.

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Mashi
Aug 15, 2005

Just wanted you to know your dinner's cold and the children all agree you're a shitheel!

DaTroof posted:

Are you serious? I have trouble imagining how that's more practical than something like this:

code:
function forCase() {
	if (firstProcess()) {
		return a;
	}
	if (secondProcess()) {
		return b;
	}
	if (thirdProcess()) {
		return c;
	}
}
Especially since a, b, and c can be made into something more useful than an iterator value with a vague and possibly transient meaning.

AI saw it as a way to avoid nesting an IF statement 6 levels deep. I never said it was good I just offered some possible reasoning for doing it. Also I am self taught so yea I used to do alot of weird and zany poo poo...

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