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[–] kubica@fedia.io 87 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Everything is a helper funcion. "Main" might be the most helpful though.

[–] joyjoy@piefed.social 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But all it does is shoot me in the foot!

[–] death_to_carrots@feddit.org 10 points 2 weeks ago
sed -i 's|main\((.*)\)|footgun(\1)|g' file.c
[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For me, "helper functions" are the small bits i'm too lazy to categorize.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 12 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Are you the person at my work that keeps raising pull requests with all the code stuffed into AbstractWidgetReaderWriterManagerImplHelperV2 classes consisting purely of static methods with fourteen parameters each? :shakes fist angrily:

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

No. What he hell? Send them a coding guide for a start.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

It's always either static calls with at least a dozen parameters or no input no output mystery state pinball madness

[–] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Here's this masterpiece I wrote for Python class.

import document
def greeting(user_name: str):
    def generate_greeting(greet_user: str):
        # Java
        class Abstract_greeting_generator_factory_factoryClass:
            def __init__(self):
                def abstract_greeting_generator_factory_factory():
                    def abstract_greeting_generator_factory():
                        def abstract_greeting_generator(user_name: str):
                            def greeting_generator(user_name: str):
                                #return("Hello, " + user_name + "!")
                                # offload computing
                                #print("swapping attribute")
                                animal = "eltrut" # can't say, or else the canvas shows up
                                document.getElementById("python_" + animal[::-1] + "Canvas").setAttribute("greet_name", user_name)
                                #print("inserting script")
                                document.getElementById("python_" + animal[::-1] + "Canvas").innerHTML = "<input type=image src=1 onerror=\"document.getElementById('python_" + animal[::-1] + "Canvas').setAttribute('greet_name', 'Hello, ' + document.getElementById('python_" + animal[::-1] + "Canvas').getAttribute('greet_name') + '!')\">"
                                #print("waiting for response")
                                while document.getElementById("python_" + animal[::-1] + "Canvas").getAttribute("greet_name") == user_name:
                                    pass # CPU waste inator 3000
                                #print("hiding crimes")
                                # id=xss doesn't w*rk, I tried
                                document.getElementById("python_" + animal[::-1] + "Canvas").innerHTML = ""
                                #print("returning")
                                return(document.getElementById("python_" + animal[::-1] + "Canvas").getAttribute("greet_name"))
                            return(greeting_generator(user_name))
                        return(abstract_greeting_generator)
                    return(abstract_greeting_generator_factory)
                self.abstract_greeting_generator_factory_factory = abstract_greeting_generator_factory_factory
            def return_greeting_generator_factory_factory(self):
                return(self.abstract_greeting_generator_factory_factory)
        Abstract_greeting_generator_factory_factoryClassInstance = Abstract_greeting_generator_factory_factoryClass()
        abstract_greeting_generator_factory_factoryInstance = Abstract_greeting_generator_factory_factoryClassInstance.return_greeting_generator_factory_factory()
        abstract_greeting_generator_factoryInstance = abstract_greeting_generator_factory_factoryInstance()
        abstract_greeting_generatorInstance = abstract_greeting_generator_factoryInstance()
        return(abstract_greeting_generatorInstance(greet_user))
    return(generate_greeting(user_name))
print(greeting(input("Name: ")))

I also have one somewhere that runs Minecraft

[–] whimsy@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

It's all arbitrary. The only difference is understanding

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 58 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

looks inside

Vibe-coded Electron running Claude.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

--- How bad could it get?

Vibe-coded Electron


Yeah.

[–] python@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago

Helper function has comment explaining what it’s for instead of being named for what it does.

[–] Marija@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

Clear names beat comments. Optimocracy.