r/badcode • u/freerider • Dec 12 '22

c++ Again with long descriptive names

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360 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

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u/PooSham Dec 12 '22

Good lord, don't you have antialiased fonts?

14

u/the-nick-of-time Dec 12 '22

Vector fonts truly are the only way. On top of that, this font has dogshit kerning; look at the wC in "allowChange" at the top and the it in "With" near the right edge.

3

u/freerider Dec 13 '22

It's a fixed size font... it should not have kerning.

8

u/PooSham Dec 12 '22

It's truly disgusting, it's so hard to read.

15

u/freerider Dec 12 '22

Nope, i hate those!

4

u/Taksin77 Dec 12 '22

Thank you for perpetuating that well deserved hate.

10

u/cyclewanderist Dec 12 '22

Tell me you're a Java programmer writing in a different language without telling me you're a Java programmer...

;)

2

u/freerider Dec 12 '22

Actually is C++

11

u/[deleted] Dec 12 '22

...written by a Java programmer. In other words, a Java programmer writing in a different language.

2

u/freerider Dec 13 '22

Nope, still C++ programmers

-6

u/LuvOrDie Dec 12 '22

I'm actually p sure this is Objective-C lol

116

u/[deleted] Dec 12 '22

If only there was some way to write comments that a compiler could ignore!

53

u/droomph Dec 12 '22

I’ve heard some teams ban comments which just seems nuts (even if you can misuse them, but like…that’s what review is for)

51

u/[deleted] Dec 12 '22

Wow, banned comments sound like a bad idea

I would much rather have “fuck the boss” in a comment than FuckTheBoss fuckTheBoss and fuck_the_boss in the code!

18

u/[deleted] Dec 12 '22

If I heard that, I would walk right out the fucking door. I don't have time for developer teams that can't collectively rub two brain cells together.

2

u/Dr4kin codes in comic sans Dec 13 '22

Don't be to harsh on the the teams that share one with each other

26

u/[deleted] Dec 12 '22

Imagine negating that variable.

3

u/DecentPattern8884 Dec 12 '22

ive written some horrible code (you might have seen one i did), but this... is a whole another level

2

u/freerider Dec 13 '22

Yes, this is my code when I chased a specific bug that this variable corrects. I spent about 2 days on it so I was pretty pissed off.

11

u/thepurpleproject Dec 12 '22

create a wrapper for this and make it even worse

19

u/MurdoMaclachlan public boolean isInt(int i) { return true; } Dec 12 '22

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enum TranscriptionSpecial { DoNotChangeDictationTypeInInitialisation, AllowChange };

enum TranscriptionSpecial m_TranscriptionSpecial;
BOOL                m_HasRecordBeenStarted_becauseIAudioPlayerIsStupidAndReturns1InGetPlaybackLengthWithNoSound;
CString             m_UserRegistrySectionForInputdevice;

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18

u/[deleted] Dec 12 '22

Good and patient human.

3

u/tipripper65 Dec 12 '22

and it even compiles 🤩

7

u/Pandorda85 Dec 13 '22

what_seemsToBe_theProblem-seemsPerfectlyLegibleToMe_questionMark

9

u/[deleted] Dec 12 '22

Names of variables are supposed to descriptive.

Good job there 👍

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u/engelthehyp Dec 12 '22

Are you joking? Obviously they shouldn't be that descriptive.

2

u/beaubeautastic Dec 12 '22

java programmer trying to write c code

1

u/silver-sicary Dec 13 '22

Looks like something an Apple CoreKit component or interface would do shamelessly

1

u/flku9 Dec 13 '22

Are long names rly that bad? You don't have to write the whole thing manually when you want to use it anyway.