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• jabberwordy (Score:2)

  by inkdroid (3294)

  It deserves a name---a really important name---to elevate it beyond its mere stupidity into some sort of software engineering jabberwocky worthy of conference presentations, journal articles, and high brow discussion.

  Side effects [ic.ac.uk] considered harmful?
  • Re:jabberwordy (Score:2)

    by petdance (2468)

    Not a side effect. The variable doesn't get modified....

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    • Re:jabberwordy (Score:2)

      by inkdroid (3294)

      use Text::AutoFormat;
      $text = autoformat( $entry, { ... } );
      print $entry;

      It looks to me that there was some (perhaps unconscious) expectation that $entry was going to be modified by the call to autoformat(). Perhaps "Unconscious/Anticipatory Side-Effect Considered Harmful" would be better? If not it might be a useful topic for some postmodern criticism :-)

      <aside>Ain't it nice to be able to comment in brian's journal?.../me wonders how long this can last.</aside>
      • Re:jabberwordy (Score:2)

        by petdance (2468)

        I just figured it was a brainfart when adding the autoformat call, that the code was originally something like:

        $entry = get_the_entry();
        print $entry;

        and brian said "Hey, I want formatting", and added the autoformat line.

        $entry = get_the_entry();
        $text = autoformat( $entry, {...} );
        print $entry;

        At least, that's usually how I get in this situation...

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        • Re:jabberwordy (Score:2)

          by inkdroid (3294) on 2004.01.12 10:37 (#27261) Homepage Journal

          "Brainfart" now that's "worthy of high discussion" :-) Perhaps "Brainus Farticus" would lend it more latin flavor (or not). Seriously though, brian's error looked to me like it was coming from too much C programming, a la...

          stpcpy (char *to, const char *from)

          "C Considered Harmful"? Nah...

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