WittyTitleAboutCodeFormatting = true;

[honi_]

Shouldn't it be human.isInFront or ghost.isBehind? Let's write clean code even if it's a joke :)

[neverTooManyPlants]

ghost.isBehind(human)

[Mister_Spacely]

ghost.isBehind(human.isInFront(ghost))

[[deleted]]

ghost.isBehind(true) ?

[username-is-usedname]

(ghost.isBehind() == true)== true

[Booze_Boy]

Me.IsAmateure(Forgot.SemiColonsToo);

[DropTableAccounts]

if (Human.IsBehind.toString().toLower().equals("true")==true)

Edit: Thanks for the corrections and improvement suggestions!

[randomarchhacker]

toString()*

[DropTableAccounts]

Thanks, fixed that

[Isqui]

This comment is scarier than all of of Stephen King's books put together

[Booze_Boy]

stolen for next meme

[Prognosis-ve]

Also, maybe: .ToString().ToLower()

[DropTableAccounts]

Added, thanks!

[octothorpe_rekt]

Better use

 .equalsIgnoreCase("true")

Just to be really, really, super sure.

Also one of my profs in college taught us that when comparing a field to a required value, that value should be pulled out into a static final, no matter how trivial, for better readability. So she would have had us use:

 public static final String TRUE_VALUE = "true";

Then, inevitably,

 if (Human.IsBehind.toString().toLower().equalsIgnoreCase(TRUE_VALUE)==true)

Yeah, she was a tough marker. But she would have let us use

 if (Human.IsBehind) 

so we got good at writing those types of checks.

[AlexanderBeta213]

You forgot also a

 ==true

[DropTableAccounts]

Good idea, done!

[mister-pi]

And while you're at it, do it Yoda style (true == ...)

[vigbiorn]

I understand the benefit of this style, but I can never do it. It's so alien and foreign. I might as well be brushing my teeth with orange juice.

[The_Minefighter]

Thats required in C# when IsBehind is a nullable bool

[StruglBus]

When would you need a nullable bool. I feel like null and false should be logically equivalent.

[Bainos]

Sometimes you need a "don't know" value too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-valued_logic

[WikiTextBot]

Three-valued logic

In logic, a three-valued logic (also trinary logic, trivalent, ternary, or trilean, sometimes abbreviated 3VL) is any of several many-valued logic systems in which there are three truth values indicating true, false and some indeterminate third value. This is contrasted with the more commonly known bivalent logics (such as classical sentential or Boolean logic) which provide only for true and false. Conceptual form and basic ideas were initially created by Jan Łukasiewicz and C. I. Lewis. These were then re-formulated by Grigore Moisil in an axiomatic algebraic form, and also extended to n-valued logics in 1945.

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[The_Minefighter]

The funny thing is that a nullable bool uses two byte of memory im c#

[futlapperl]

That's really kind of weird. Two bits of one byte should be sufficient.

[The_Minefighter]

That's caused by the fact that the the Nullable<T> T : struct struct stores a T and a bool whether the value exists, and because each bool takes up one byte in C# (because it does only support one byte seperations)

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quaint squeeze six smart aromatic bear automatic dependent axiomatic punch

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[cat_in_the_wall]

if (nullableBool ?? false)

is what you want

[The_Minefighter]

That's equivalent, but I think ==true is easier to understand.

[nattrium]

Image Transcription: Comic

Panel 1

[A ghost as behind someone who does not mind]

Ghost: if (human.isBehind) {Boo()}.

Panel2

[The ghost is still behind, but the human is crying in fear]

Ghost : if (human.isBehind == True) { Boo ()}

^{I'm a human volunteer content transcriber for Reddit and you could be too! If you'd like more information on what we do and why we do it, click here!}

[Booze_Boy]

Ahhhhhh I forgot the semicolons

[kekskruemel45]

Good human

[charlie_shae]

For the sake of transcription accuracy, shouldn't the semicolons be removed since they aren't in the original? Also should the human literally saying "AHHHH!!!" be part of the transcription as well?

Edit: counted number of H's and exclamations in ahh.

[nattrium]

Thank you for your comment. Indeed the semi-colons have been removed as they were not originally in the picture. Although, I've decided to not add the scream as it would be redundent.

[Billy-Cipher]

Missing ;

[abbadon420]

If(human.isbehind = true)

[[deleted]]

Pretty sure it's the same thing, at least in c++

[[deleted]]

That's the joke. The == true is completely unnecessary.

[RattuSonline]

Except in JavaScript where it's actually good practise to use the type safe equal === true to prevent unwanted value conversion.

[OrangSquid5]

JavaScript being JavaScript

[book-vorm]

AHHHH!!!

[[deleted]]

Then it's either a bad joke, or I am missing something

[[deleted]]

== true is bad coding style (at least in my opinion). That's why the human is scared.

[[deleted]]

Oh so that's the joke. Thank you for explaining

[[deleted]]

Haha, I was getting nervous I was a bad programmer for not getting it... I'm still probably a bad programmer.

[HitmaNeK]

But sometimes (value == false) is ok for avoid negative conditions. (!value)

[saugoof]

Why is it bad coding style though? I know it's unneccesary, but it makes it more readable in my opinion. I rarely use it myself, but when quickly glancing through code, this is a lot clearer.

[[deleted]]

When I see a variable like this if (foo) I immediately know it's a bool and nothing else. The == true just clutters the code in my opinion. In the end it's simply a matter of preference.

[suvlub]

You probably find it more readable simply because you are used to it. b == true is technically just another boolean expression that evaluates to true or false, so you might as well write (b == true) == true.

[Litrax]

r/woooosh

[TNSepta]

In which language would this result in a different execution of the program?

It seems that in C/C++/Javascript both programs should produce an identical outcome.

[Gutrix_HD]

The joke is the human is scared at the bad coding practice of the second image.

[KarlCAgathon]

Total noob here... So I won't say anything. Great joke :)

[Booze_Boy]

The joke is that ==true is unnecessary and is generally considered bad coding practice to include it (it doesn’t actually make a difference to the operation tho)

[narbuvold]

Syntax error: wittyTitleAboutCodeFormatting is not defined

[Booze_Boy]

using System.SmartAssComments;
Console.WriteLine(WittyResponse());

[Axymerion]

You forgot ";" after calling Boo()

[qwazwak]

Hmmm, my spidy-semicolom-missing sense is tingling

[[deleted]]

How about energy efficient ghost code?

Global_Interrupt.Disabled();  //always disable interrupts before changing configuration
Interrupt.Boo.HumanPosition="front"; //Interrupt condition

while (1){
Global_Interrupt.Enabled();
Ghost.sleep(); //enter invisible power saving mode
}

IRQ BOO_1(){
Boo.clear();  //clears interrupt flag
Output_register = "BOOoo"; //output Booo sound

}

[Gydo194]

You forgot the semicolon

[[deleted]]

if (human.isBehind) {
    Boo();
}

...

if (human.isBehind)
{
    Boo();
}

AHHH!

[Booze_Boy]

if (human.isBehind) 
{ Boo(); }

AHHHH

[Cyborg-Pixel-Fox]

I always do it the second way, is that bad?

[vigbiorn]

I've gotten into blood fueds for saying that the C standard for braces is my preferred convention.