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[–] whimsy@lemmy.zip 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Semantic satiation. Or whatever it's called, i think ive officially lost it after reading this

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 5 points 1 year ago

I read the code like half a dozen times and my brain hurts.

[–] 18107@aussie.zone 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Is "main" a valid Java identifier?

yes

package main;

public class main {

    static main main;
    String Main;

    main(String main) {
        Main = main;
    }

    main(main main) {
        System.out.println(main.Main);
    }

    main main(main main) {
        return new main(main);
    }

    public static void main(main...Main) {
        main:
        for (main main : Main) {
            main = (main instanceof Main) ? new main(main): main.main(main);
            break main;
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        main = new main("main");
        main.main(main, main);
        main = main.new Main(main) {
            main main(main main) {
                return ((Main)main).main();
            }
        };
        main.main(main);
        main.main(main,main);
    }

    abstract class Main extends main {
        Main(main main) {
            super("main");
        }

        main main() {
            main.Main = "Main";
            return main;
        }
    }
}

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 18 points 1 year ago

Main, obviously.

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

This is your main on drugs 🍳

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago
[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I can see how this may be useful. My understanding is that this is go lang and the person created a wrapper type UUID and this function takes the go standard library uuid.UUID and returns the wrapped UUID.

The wrapped UUID could be useful as you can then define methods for it like toInt() or something to make it implement some ID interface you have set up. It's a common pattern in go to create a thin wrapper around an imported type so you can implement all the methods required for some interface you defined. It does make naming those thin wrappers hard because what are you supposed to name the struct that just contains a uuid?

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 17 points 1 year ago

Yep, that person would be me and that's exactly what I was doing, just found it funny that there was so many uuids in the piece of code.

Originally the function was named FromUuid but I couldn't resist renaming it to make it even better.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Clearly, the answer is uuid.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Where did i put that Spiderman x3 pointing meme?

[–] HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 year ago
[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 19 points 1 year ago

When you get a new boss at Twitter who ranks people by lines of code written

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago

New Dutch programming language just dropped.

I've read so many tutorials like this. func Func Myfunc()

If you write textbooks like this you and your family should be boiled in sewage.

Why I love the Into trait in rust

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If this was C:

#define uuID func
#define uuiD return
[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

#define satan fubarx

Plot twist: it returns the bios serial.

[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not exactly the same, but this reminded me of the MuffinMail.MuffinHash.MuffinHash talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9pEzgHorH0

[–] Randelung@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

A colleague wrote Java style Python. SomethingDispatcher().dispatch() all the way. It's a mess. Poor guy was thrown into the deep end and left alone for a year. I don't blame him for the outcome.

Meanwhile, functools.partial is one of my favorite tools. I wrote a whole SCADA system in which the initialization just builds data pathways using functools.partial so that incoming event callbacks can be handled with all necessary resources already in scope. Any missing data is made apparent at init, not at event time. It's fast and stable (and I'm pretty proud of it lol).

[–] carrylex@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[–] xoggy@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The feeling you get when searching your codebase for references to your "uid" variable but this cheeky boy keeps popping up.

[–] cbazero@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

n, n, n, nn, nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn, n, nn, n, n,n ....

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i've now read UUID so many times i'm starting to think it's some kind of sex disease

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That must one awkward conversation... "Can you explain where did you get the uuid from?"

i told you last logic loop NO

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago
[–] four@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Shouldnt it be return UUID { uuid: uuid.uuid } ?

I think it would make more sense AND more uuid per UUID

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The first UUID is a local type, the second is the name of an embedded struct, the third is the name of the variable.

The struct looks something like this (writing this on my phone)

type UUID struct { uuid.UUID }

So, basically, this is a custom wrapper for a third party UUID implementation.

[–] four@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Ahh, that makes sense then

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I'm assuming it's a map/dictionary notation here, rather than a type hint

[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

My coworkers also introduce needless additions to the call stack