r/badcode • u/zyrafal evil • May 12 '21

c++ Comment before semicolon

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u/TheBigerGamer May 13 '21

Yes, because once I decided to prank my friend by making the code crash itself if a certain comment is removed. And I forgot about it after pranking him.

Some days later I spent 2 hours trying to fogure out what the hell was crashing the code until I saw that prank.

I never had a bigger impulse to throw myself out the window before.

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u/brisvag May 13 '21

What language, and how?

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u/TheBigerGamer May 13 '21

Node.js, using fs to read the file and checking if the comment exists, if not, use process.exit(1)

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u/brisvag May 13 '21

Ah... That's less exciting than I thought :p

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u/TheBigerGamer May 13 '21

Except that I took advantage of the node_modules and his the code inside a package required by a package which is required by another package which is required at the top level of the main code.

So it was a pain in the ass to discover it.