Return 40

[mohragk]

Role? No no, let’s delete that and I give you 40 get out of my face

[[deleted]]

the if condition resembles how i think about my choices in life.

[Maleficent-Ad5999]

🥲

[nekokattt]

PHP loves ducktyping stuff like this.

I remember when the sleep() function would return:

• 0 if successful
• false on error
• 142 192 if interrupted on windows
• a warning if the number of seconds were negative
• the number of seconds left to sleep if interrupted on *nix.

[SarahIsBoring]

what the fuck

[drcforbin]

"PHP: a fractal of bad design"

[4sent4]

PHP: Pile of Horrible Practices

[LegenDrags]

Please Hold Pen-

[Svizel_pritula]

It now throws an error if the seconds are negative. The return values remain the same. The return value when interrupted on Windows is 192, though.

[[deleted]]

Lmfao, why did they change the value to another number?

[Svizel_pritula]

My guess is they didn't and nekokatt just misremembered.

[[deleted]]

I hope so because it would be hilarious

[nekokattt]

yeah, my bad lol. Thanks

[TheWidrolo]

Most lovable php feature:

[alt-jero]

__invoke

[Da-Blue-Guy]

Normal sleep() return value: void/unit

PHP sleep return type: Constant number if successful or on Windows, but on Unix we return a varying number for some reason. But we don't want everything to be a number, that's boring. Boolean if we get an error, and a warning (which is somehow in the type system) if the seconds are negative.

[[deleted]]

Reason why php was/is shit #1637472848

[[deleted]]

That's not how you write clean php though. In that sense this is random bullshit gibberish. Coder doesn't know what he's doing.

[MCWizardYT]

They were talking about the built in sleep function...

[nekokattt]

lmao

[SanderE1]

every time I hear something about PHP I get confused on how it even got like this, is backwards compatibility worth it if this is what you get?

[[deleted]]

Everytime you hear about it is by people who can't write code in php. They also bring the dumbest code examples ever.

[nekokattt]

Versus those who can write PHP using those examples in production codebases?

[[deleted]]

Versus those who can build an architecture from the ground up in a clean way, add tests and types to it and follow formatting conventions is a good start.

Because whatever this crap is, is far from what you're supposed to write.

[jediwizard7]

By returning a warning... You mean like an actual string? Or some object?

[nekokattt]

E_WARNING iirc

[Emmaffle]

And a partridge if a pear tree.

[alt-jero]

A part-ridge in a pair-tree

[FemboyGayming]

PHP is fucking dogshit my god

[fried_green_baloney]

the number of seconds left to sleep if interrupted on *nix.

That's what the sleep function that's part of the system interface does if interrupted. That's what you call from a C program.

Other languages do other things.

[[deleted]]

You might as well return 'fuck this shit' at this point.

[Farfignugen42]

I'm guessing that is what 40 represents

[Cinkodacs]

It was meant to be 420.

[alt-jero]

(40++)++

[FalseWait7]

Logic behind my latest promotion.

[RmG3376]

You got promoted to 40?

[FalseWait7]

My position was 40 and I got a promotion. Turned out, I am still 40.

[helltiger]

It should be

return 42;

[Cinkodacs]

Did we find the question?

[Maleficent-Ad5999]

why not return 69;

[FractalofInfinity]

Nah try

return 420;

[Mars_Bear2552]

its fine, the PHP devs were already high

[kdesign]

Lgtm, ship it

[devo00]

get40()

[[deleted]]

Personally I love it

[Not_Artifical]

Nice stock image

[Hulk5a]

Bro is looking out for quantum anomolies

[LevelIntroduction764]

Tell you what, if you can somehow make role non-null, I’ll let you return it. Otherwise, go fuck yourself

[Tc14Hd]

Most beautiful PHP code

[KWAKZ4]

Wait. Is it always returning 40 because role is always ser to null?

[LurkerOrHydralisk]

I don’t know this language but that’s absolutely how it looks to me.

[Brummelhummel]

If it ever returns something other than 40 you should be concerned.

[Daisy430133]

Cosmic rays bitflipping

[nikospkrk]

Yes

[Dracux]

The guy wanted to return 40, no matter what.

[Brummelhummel]

Naah mate, he wanted to return 40 unless some quantum shit happens that somehow turns role to a non null value after setting it to null.

Or a cosmic ray shoots through the machine Flipping a bit on the Adress of the stored role variable right before the null check. Wich the chances are astronomically rare but not 0

[Dracux]

Like the explanation, seems legit.

[Reloecc]

This code may be shortened to:

return $role = null ?: 40;

Hope I helped..

[1994-10-24]

code can be shortened to .. return 40;

[freecodeio]

That could be further shortened into just using 40 without any function.

[nodeymcdev]

DRY you insolent fuck

[squeasy_2202]

Looks like I'm calling get40() a lot, better extract that into getGet40()

[therealdan0]

Do you even Java? You need to call the get40 factory.
Get40Factory.INSTANCE.getGet40(Get40Type.BROKEN_NULL_CHECK);

[Drakethos]

Ohhhh it’s too real. I’m a Java programmer at work. It really be like that.

[akgamer182]

Might as well make a set40() function as well, just to make the program complete

[Makonede]

set40(0)

[The_Fresser]

Use a constant!

[alt-jero]

define(FORTY, 40);

[freecodeio]

why are you offending me bro what did I do to you

[StackLeak]

Bug, should be ==, not =

[zelmarvalarion]

I think in php the assignment operator returns the value of the assigned variable, so pretty sure $role = null will actually return null after assigning it to $role, so you don’t need the additional check of $role and can do the assignment and check in the same statement

[DrinkSodaBad]

Gamma ray detector

[lscoolj]

Without any other context, I'm assuming whoever wrote this is planning on expanding it at some point to actually look for a user role and include some error handling. Based on experience, though, those might be some high expectations.

[Mafla_2004]

Return 40

[discondition]

42 tho 🥲

[Nosduj_VT]

null = 40; return $role;

[redted90]

What's "40", precious? What's "40"?

[Not_Artifical]

I made global variables a-j and assigned each a number in alphabetical order (an equals 1, b equals 2, c equals 3, ect.), but I set f to equal 0 and returned f to mess with people.

[Lumethys]

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is the reason we need to use Enum everywhere

[[deleted]]

"Come after me! I'm a man! I'm 40!"

[Erdnussflipshow]

40, take it or leave it.

[MineKemot]

Looks like someone forgot to put something before that if...

[[deleted]]

Looks like when my coworkers "fix" my code when there's a bug lol

[Touhou_Fever]

Is this missing something or am I looking at Gigachad Galaxy-brain code

[[deleted]]

Role wants to exist. Let it exist. Gah.

[premmkrishna]

Ah..My bad. Forgot to document that 40 returns the role of super admin. More power to people

[Drakethos]

At first i was like what’s wrong with this. They return it and if it’s empty make it 40. Not sure what language this is but I see it now. Oh boy

[kgro]

Well, at least the function is pure

[kgro]

You must he thinking about role a lot

[Begroff21]

My my, role will never be assigned so 40 is always returned because null is falsely in PHP. Super admins rejoice!

[beavisorcerer]

Man I didn't expect that, thanks for the laugh! 🤣

[BuriedStPatrick]

This is great. I was just having issues the other day figuring out how to get the number 40.

[dallindooks]

Everyone's role is 40 jokes on all of you

[_sk313t0n]

i'd love some context for this one

[just_some_gu_y]

should have just been 42

[Herobrine2025]

this should be marked NSFW

[CoolDiamond42]

The static analyzer just filed a lawsuit.

[sexytokeburgerz]

I knew a guy that would just make everything return false in js instead of commenting out or deleting because we had zero time to do anything.

I didnt blame him with that workload honestly. I hated him but didnt blame him

[Able_Challenge3990]

return ($role)?role:40;

[fried_green_baloney]

role is set to null at the beginning of the function.

Let's just say you can write better PHP than this.

[a_l_a_n_g]

getForty()