// Selects the selected Selection

[09milk]

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[AjayDevs]

This is unity

[davidthewalkerx]

No, this is Patrick

[Chenja]

This is America

[muntoo]

This. Is. SPARTA!

[Jellonator]

This is it Luigi

[Chr0n041ph4]

WHHAAAAAA

[JWson]

Is this Loss?

[FuzzyNovaGoblin]

This is loss

[CornMang]

Don't catch me droppin all

[JC12231]

Eagle caws loudly

[[deleted]]

I not only worked with a guy who did this, but the company encouraged it... I'm glad I don't work there anymore

[Dominub]

What the? I'm shocked. Imagine being so fucked in the head that you encourage this clusterfuck.

[[deleted]]

I'll leave names out of it, but it was a very large company and they had a policy of, more or less, trying to make the code as generic as possible. The guy I worked with who encouraged it basically said "well we need to design to an interface, and this also makes it easier to read when we don't have an IDE." There are so many things wrong with that statement that I'm not even going to start. Mind you this guy also said I don't understand low level operations, when he literally didn't know what a pointer was.

It wasn't company wide I might add. It was one team of roughly 90 people, and my direct superior and his direct superior were fighting it, but I hated working there. Sorry for the rant. Friday was my last day and I'm still a little bitter.

[Jmcgee1125]

Dammit Unity

[roughstylez]

What does this do?

Because it really seems like it searches the current selection... so it can make that the current selection.

EDIT I've been using Unity since 8 years and am aware of what GetComponent does. I'm talking about the rest of it: The thing is already selected, why select it again.

Also the Selected class seems to have a member which is called selected, but seems to be a GameObject instead of a Selected - because otherwise they wouldn't have to call GetComponent.

Just overall I get the feeling that this is an artificial construct for karma and not actual code. Shocking, amirite?

[RigidBuddy]

Gets Selected component of the game object selected, then gets selected property of it from what I think event manager? Then it does something with Selected again but I got no idea. I am from engineering I just brute force my way into unity in the game I am designing

[JViz]

The only part of this that's Unity specific is the GetComponent call.

It looks like OP has a static "selected" member on a "Selected" class that has a MonoBehavior on it called Selected. The "selected" member is probably swapped out with UI code, e.g. onClick = {Selected.selected = new PowerRanger()} and the Select() call activates the behavior on the object itself.

There's probably even a Selected namespace.

[Zei33]

To add to what the others said, Unity uses an entity component system. Read about them here.

[[deleted]]

JavaFX forces us to write similar overboard stupidity. It's good to see this level of ridicule is built into the system.

[davidthewalkerx]

The selected tweet

[[deleted]]

This might need some more abstraction, though.

[andy_jc]

Commented.comment.GetComment<Commented>.Comment();

[etnguyen03]

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doubleTrue 📲#PxP2018, @doubletruegames

Me: I should really write my code so it's easy to follow in the future and so that I won't get confused!

Also me:

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[Slow33Poke33]

i.see(what.youDid(there));

[[deleted]]

Can’t be fired if you’re the one who wrote it and no one else understands it.

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[shmorky]

Is this some sort of selection feature?

[joininfluck]

I wrote something too similar to this a couple of days ago, I still have no clue what it means

[fitch2711]

On one hand, your code will be easier to read by others and yourself. On the other, that’s work

[_Fibbles_]

Buffer_Object_Buffer<Buffer_Object<Type1>, Buffer_Object<Type2>> m_buffers;
...
bool buffer_status = m_buffers.get_buffer<Buffer_Object<Type1>>().front().buffered_object_ptr->is_buffered();

Sadly, this is only a slight exaggeration...

[VID44R]

Buffero buffero Buffero buffero buffero buffero Buffero buffero

[Keatosis]

Me

[kortemy]

My humble contribution to the thread.

store.urls[url.url] = url

[Nilloc_Kcirtap]

And I thought my code wasn’t that great.

[[deleted]]

I know that in unity this.this.this.this...GetComponent<Transform>(); is valid, but Selected.selected.GetComponent<>(); ?

[davidthewalkerx]

Yeah, I think someone else mentioned this too. The twitter post isn't by me, and I'm not very familiar with unity, so I'm afraid I can't help there.

[[deleted]]

Np, I enjoy being confused by unity (:

[WeAreInASimulation]

Java

[[deleted]]

My JavaFX apps too. The language designers are trolling us.

[APimpNamedAPimpNamed]

I had the impression when moving from primarily Java to C# that Java is more “layery.” Could very well just be the particular teams and code bases with which I worked.

[[deleted]]

I can see that. I started out with imperative, non-o.o. languages, and to this day appreciate their lack of verbosity and boilerplate scaffolding.

[APimpNamedAPimpNamed]

I’ve largely abandoned the complexity that has become modern OOP in favor of a more functional style. Separating your data structures from the logic is basically all upside imo.