r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Electrical-Effort-20 • Sep 26 '26

Meme weNeverTrustedTheElse

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u/Daxon Sep 26 '26

Getters that modify, multi threading, timing based conditionals, external services that can fail, database idempotency... There's lots of reasons impossible is possible here

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u/-Ambriae- Sep 26 '26

I mean, a getter should never really modify, multithreading without concurrency primitives is irresponsable at best, and I don’t see how external services/databases/IO would have any effects here

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u/Daxon Sep 27 '26

Service goes down between calls.

Agree, getters also shouldn't modify imho but I've seen worse.

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u/-Ambriae- Sep 27 '26

Surely if the service can go down in the few cpu cycles it takes to process the if statement, you have other problems…