ifn't : programmer

[–] [email protected] 191 points 9 months ago (6 children)

I propose a new, more threatening kind of control flow.

do {
  /* something */
} or else {
  /* you don't want to find out */
}

[–] gex 57 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Some C++ style guides suggest the following naming convention for functions that crash on any error

OpenFileOrDie()

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (4 children)

PHP has the always wonderful (and perfectly functional) syntax of

logUserIn() or die();

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Personally, I like to call catched exception variables up, so for a rethrow I can throw up;.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago

this is just a menacing try/catch!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

It_would_be_a_shame_if(condition)

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Please God let this be a humorous post that somehow does not also find a way to manage to come true...

[–] [email protected] 84 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I would have bought it if they said ifnot instead, it's the same number of characters and wouldn't require a major parser overhaul to support keywords with a ' in the name.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago (1 children)

i mean, “unless” tends to be the usual term for an “if not” keyword in languages that implement such a thing

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Which is awful and incredibly confusing. I hate ruby

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, to be clear, I don't like it, I don't like it one bit:-P.

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[–] bappity 98 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

cap () {

}
nocap () {

}

[–] [email protected] 45 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

nocap(frfr){

}

[–] [email protected] 70 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Reduce exclamation marks!? Great Scott!!!!! Is there a shortage of punctuation in the future!?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

You could have saved two, all you had to do was use the interrobang. You’re a monster.

[–] jaybone 13 points 9 months ago

1.21GB!!!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

All known deposits were depleted

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[+] the_of_and_a_to 54 points 9 months ago (6 children)

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 9 months ago

unlessn't

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, I hate the "unless" so much

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (11 children)

Basic used "else".

It's nice. "if", "then", and "else". I spent a year programming a shitty roulette game on an Apple 2e back in high school. I still remember the joy of using if/then/else paired with goto to make a horrible mess of spaghetti logic.

But yeah, "else" is nice.

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[–] ohlaph 53 points 9 months ago (3 children)

aint (something) {
    somethingElse()
}

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[–] lung 41 points 9 months ago (1 children)

ifn't(!valid) halp?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I believe that resolves the same as

ain't!(!untrue)

[+] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

{
  put(a, "heartache")
  tell(me, "why")
  ain't(nothing)
  {
    put(a, "mistake")
    //...
  }
}

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Still not as good as whence

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Is this a reference to something because I’d love to read it if you have a time to share.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Why not just ifnot? Same count of characters but an o instead of a possibly problematic single quote.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

I think it's just capitalizing on a trend to add n't to otherwise noy contractions, to make them into contractions. Contractionn'ts, if you will

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yes... how is "reducing exclamation marks" a good thing when you do it by adding a ' (not to be confused with , ´,‘or’` ..which are all different characters).

Does this rely on the assumption that everyone uses a US QWERTY keyboard where ! happens to be slightly more inconvenient than typing '?

[–] KmlSlmk64 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If someone really wanted to add it, probably the best would be to use unless

[–] JoshuaEN 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I really liked having unless in Ruby; a ! can be easy to miss, while unless made it clear without needing to write out != true.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (2 children)

"Help's with readability"? You know what else helps? Not using contractions and introducing an unbalanced single quote.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If they'd'nt've done that, it'd've been better. Agreed.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago

Imagine the regex needed to highlight code with that extra single quote.

[–] olafurp 25 points 9 months ago (7 children)

I'd take a not or "if not" operator tbh.

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[–] muntedcrocodile 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

With ahit like that its not microsoft java its now microsoft javascript

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[–] Thcdenton 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

ifn't (myNum don't= 3 &amp;&amp; myStr ain'tnull'rblankish)

[–] felbane 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Please remain calm, we are sending paramedics to your location.

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[–] AlmightySnoo 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

reminds me of #ifndef instead of #if !defined(...)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (4 children)

What's wrong with "else"

[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's not ifn't

[–] SpaceNoodle 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

*it'sn't

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

die unless $keyword == "unless";

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[–] PanArab 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

This can't be for real. I'll stick with C11 thank you.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

Here you dropped this:

#define ifnt(x) if (!(x))

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