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𝚒𝚏... (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 weeks ago by slothrop@lemmy.ca to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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A wife tells her programmer husband: “Go to the store and buy a gallon of milk. If they have eggs, get six.”

He comes back with six gallons of milk. When she asks why, he replies: “They had eggs".

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[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Maybe it's just worse when written. The period at the end of the sentence makes it hard to see how it could be misunderstood.

To your point though, not sure if I'm aware of any programming language that would continue a statement with a following if block. Far more likely that it would fail due to lack of an element to apply the 6 to rather than having a pointer to the previous object, or he would try getting what ever the literal version of a 6 would be, or maybe some slang version.

[–] ignirtoq@feddit.online 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Python, though the logic would be backwards:

milk_gallons = 6 if eggs > 0 else 1

[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Right, it would be started basically exactly the opposite. Certainly not a statement followed by an if block.

[–] ignirtoq@feddit.online 1 points 1 week ago

The code block I wrote is a statement followed by an if. What I meant be "backwards" was the order of conditions, not that the statement came after the if. It's exactly what you asked for.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

any language that allows ternary conditionals

[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Those would all start with the if, followed by two conditions, not a statement and then an if. There would be a condition to evaluate, followed by then/else?