Lunchroom Banter (Volume XIV)
by Dave Tufts - June 27, 2007 / 1:58pm View more articles
The Banter Through Code Edition...
Jeff just sent a link to a recent WorthThanFailure article with a horrible coding example. In the article, a recent grad submits the following example during an interview:
public int factorial(int n)
{
int a = 0;
for (int i = 1; i < 10; i++)
{
i = i * (i + 1);
a = i;
}
return a;
}
The author of that lovely block of code thought he was solving a factorial problem, but all his function does is return the number 12. A bunch of the iMarc develops suggested alternatives.
Dave
public int get_twelve()
{
return 12;
}
Patrick
get_12(int $twel)
{
if ($twel == 12) {
// DONT DO ANYTHING HERE
} else {
$twel = 12;
}
return ((($twel - 6) * 4) / 2);
}
Fred
// Pff, with the Azule framework, we can go ahead
// and make that twelve an object.
$twelve = TwelveFactory::create();
// And from there we can add or subtract.
$thirteen = $twelve->add(1);
// There is also simple data retrieval.
$x = 1 + $twelve->getValue();
Craig Ruksznis
Hey just because I'm a recent college grad doesn't
mean that I don't know how to make a function return 12!
New guys... all talk, no examples. :)
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