James Carr

Rants and Musings of an Agile Developer

  public Request  handleRequest ( Request aRequest ) throws InternalError {
        // Never called.
        if ( 1 == 0 )
            throw new InternalError();
        return null;
    }

5 Responses to “Best Code I’ve Seen All Day”

1. Alex Miller says:

   October 15, 2009 at 1:43 pm

   Hey, at least it doesn’t say “if ( 1 = 0 )”.

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2. David Stamm says:

   October 15, 2009 at 2:13 pm

   Did you add the “never called” comment? Or was that another stroke of genius from the original developer?

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3. James Carr says:

   October 15, 2009 at 2:46 pm

   It was another stroke of genius from the original developer

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4. Michael Easter says:

   October 15, 2009 at 3:50 pm

   hey James, just curious… in production code or test code?

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5. James Carr says:

   October 15, 2009 at 5:27 pm

   Michael, I wish I could say that it was found in test code…

   of course, I am slowly learning that sometimes people don’t define “test code” as something that you find in UnitTests

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