Comment On Are You Sure?

BlueKnot:

What, no provision for "maybe"?

andrewbadera:

Soooooo .... why did it hang? Looks like valid script to me.

grg:

THE REAL WTF IS THEY DID NOT HANDLE THE
CASE WHERE THEY WERE AN IDIOT AND HAD THEIR SHIFT-LOCK ON.

THEN YOU'D NEED ALSO THE UPPER CASE COMPARISONS TOO !!

tdittmar:

andrewbadera:

Soooooo .... why did it hang? Looks like valid script to me.

Hm. Enter "Y" and see what happens... Is my sarcasm detector broken?

You've got to wonder the level of boredom required to make such an extensive list, and whether the developer in question really had nothing better to do."

pytechd:

This needs to be in XML. And there needs to be XSLT to transform the XML values into their mixed-case companions. And for speed, the XML has to be processed by an external tool during the build process that emits massive IF structures and compiles it -- XML lookups are too slow -- it combines the best of both worlds -- the ease of use of XML and the speed of the mighty IF statement!

if(Array.IndexOf(

  new string[]{ "yes","y","ok","why not", [...], "yar" },

  userInput.ToLower())

  > -1)

{

    // do the yes stuff

}

else

{

    // do the no stuff

}

if (answer.equals("yar")) {
return true;

aliquam:

the .equals() is to slow to be used in a large series of if statements...

You should only use it when you know the majority of the test will be true.

If you know the majority of the test will be false use the == operator which is slower when true, but twice as fast when false...

James:

This would save you all those annoying "if" statements. Not that that's even TRWTF.

if(Array.IndexOf(

  new string[]{ "yes","y","ok","why not", [...], "yar" },

  userInput.ToLower())

  > -1)

{

    // do the yes stuff

}

else

{

    // do the no stuff

}

Migala:

4|\|D d0|\|'7 Ph0R937 7|-|3 r34L |-|4X0R5!

brillohead:

yes, because checking if the memory location of the input is the same as the memory location of my static strings is going to give me exactly the result im looking for...

Daniil:

OK, really, do none of you ever do something like that? My question is, why didn't the developer use a Map for this? Its faster. Its rather thorough list. I slack:

return (val != null && (val = val.trim().toLowerCase()).length() > 0 && val.startsWith("y"));

ParkinT:

Nah
Nope
Nada
Uh ah
no way
negative
absolutely not
Fer sure
Non
Don't think so

KiwiGeek:

This reminds me vagely of the time I was developing a scripting language for a game I was working on and decided to put all the different possible variations of "not" in that I could thing of, including my favourite, "ain't". I like to tell myself that it was the only scripting language to ever have ain't as a keyword.
If you're bored, the language functioned something like this...
if #var1 not #var2:
but "not" could be switched with many different keywords, such as "<>", "!=", "is not", "ain't". "If" could also take many forms, such as "supposing".
...
I also had a list of true variables. and False. There was no "FileNotFound", however.
...
I was young and foolish.

TakeASeatOverThere:

if (answer.equals("yar")) {
return true;

Obviously the application was designed for pirates.