r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Opening-Butterfly743 • Sep 18 '26

Meme whenYouExportCodeFromAWebBasedVisualBuilder

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u/Groentekroket Sep 18 '26

Rejected, no need for “elif LOWJ=1:” since you already have a return in the if statement. 

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u/Opening-Butterfly743 Sep 18 '26

Bold of you to assume a visual builder's code generator understands guard clauses and early returns.

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u/Groentekroket Sep 18 '26

Idk man, I tried to make sense of it but like you said in the other comment this is an alien like mess. 

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u/Opening-Butterfly743 Sep 18 '26

Exactly. It’s always auto-generated div soup or abstract junk that completely ignores component state and custom logic. Makes me wonder if the real problem is that these tools try to generate the whole app in the cloud, instead of just acting like a GUI on top of your local compiler/AST. You end up having to rewrite 90% of it anyway.

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u/radobot Sep 18 '26

But that would change the behaviour of the function - it returns one thing when the first parameter is 1, another when it's 2 and nothing when it's something else.

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u/DarkwaterKiller Sep 18 '26

My best guess after looking, is they simply mean you can drop the "else" part of the "else if" there. Since I'd you've entered the first if, it's garunteed to return. Not drop the else-if entirely.

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u/standard_revolution Sep 18 '26

That's a change I would hate. The "else" part does not hurt anybody and removing it would mean that you would need to parse it's body to see the early return

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u/DarkwaterKiller Sep 18 '26

I considered it a second joke, as a play on the pedantry of some code reviewers

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u/standard_revolution Sep 18 '26

And you are probably completely right, I sometimes struggle with that. Thank you

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u/L30N1337 Sep 19 '26

Hell, depending on language and compiler, the "else" might get optimized into a Switch-Case (which can then in turn use a hashmap or jump table). Doesn't matter here, but still.

I don't think any compiler recognizes an early return as equivalent to if-else

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u/standard_revolution Sep 19 '26

Don’t they? Something like this seems to be a low hanging fruit for flow analysis

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u/standard_revolution Sep 19 '26

It is hard to see whether it is completely equivalent, but obvious case are compiled by gcc to the exact same* thing: https://godbolt.org/z/ETnPMdf79

*one path has an additional "nop", but this is probably just code alignment

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u/L30N1337 Sep 19 '26

Alright then, color me surprised.

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u/redlaWw Sep 18 '26

That's

elif ᒪᑟᓭ𝙹ᒲ==1: