Musical fun with code

boanergesza1

I recently came across some of my old code, while preparing for a rewrite:
"boolean dontstop = false; // ..till you get enough, dont stop keep on...."

and who could remember the 180 hours of overtime they paid out that one month

"//they all have to be the same either all filled in, or all empty. Looks ugly, but I dont care. tired...consciousness slipping away....ZZZZZzzzZzzzz..."

lolwtf

int dontstop, believin, streetlights, people;

Of course TRWTF is having a "dontstop" variable in the first place. Why the double negation? dontstop = true means the same as stop = false, but less clearly.

(Also, my personal favourite is: int foo = 0xAAAAAAAA; //RGH!! )

Zemm

@lolwtf said:

dontstop = true means the same as stop = false

Also keepgoing = true. I know I've used kgo and kbye as variable names (k is not a prefix).

I've been suffering from insomnia lately, and with our slow internet at work I fell asleep waiting for Google yesterday.

RTapeLoadingError

@lolwtf said:

Of course TRWTF is having a "dontstop" variable in the first place. Why the double negation? dontstop = true means the same as stop = false, but less clearly.

I always find that NOCOUNT in SQL makes me stop to think. But that could just be me.

derula

@lolwtf said:

"dontstop" variable

Pah! I inherited a script that had a "text_not_skip" variable. It was extremely confusing, and it took me quite a while, but I managed to eradicate the last traces of its horridness.

da_Doctah

@lolwtf said:

int dontstop, believin, streetlights, people;

Or if you wrote it a little later:

int dontstop, nevergiveup, holdyourheadhi, andreachthetop;

dhromed

I thought this was about musical fun with code.

This is not the case.

I am disappoint.

ZPedro

I once saw code that after a break; (done as a result of reaching the end of the parsed string) had the following comment:

/* "This is the End", (c) J. Morrisson */

ekolis

bool dontStop; // thinkin about tomorrow

bool HAMMER_TIME = !dontStop;

bool inTheNameOfLove = HAMMER_TIME;

bool do = true, doNot = false;

catch (Exception ex)
{
if (do || doNot)
throw new ScriptParsingException("there is no try");
}