I appreciate the “carrot with a bit out of it” icon.
The problem is the client 🤣
…for people who refuse to use static types.
Static types are great, but not exactly what would have helped here, any decent language or at least a linter should catch the use of a not declared identifier.
def foo(x): return x.whatevrNo linter is going to catch that.
It’s python, just use type hinting already and your linter will catch that.
Also some winters can look at the use of food and see the type being passed in.
Autocorrect got you pretty bad, there.
I was very confused, why we’re suddenly talking about rationing food during winter. 🙃
Yes you can use static type hinting and the static type checker (Mypy or Pyright) will catch that. Linters (Pylint) won’t.
Not with an example that simple and poor, no.
If you have done the minimum and at least set a type hint, or if your ide is smart enough to check what calls the function and what it passes, then it’ll be flagged.
Always love seeing the trope:
*writes awful code*
See! This is why this language sucks!
How would you make it non-awful, without specifying static types?
I guess, a unit test would catch it, but needing 100% test coverage to catch typos isn’t exactly great…
What’s awful about this example? The only thing I do is access an object member. Does your code not do that??
What’s the purpose of foo? Why an ambiguous single character variable? What if the property was there but the value was null? Why not use (assuming JS) optional chaining?
I’d approach it more like this:
function getWhatevrProp(userData) ( const default = { whatevr: "n/a" }; return { ...default, ...userData }.whatevr; }Sorry, read too fast the first time. It’s more likely Python. I also don’t know Python well enough to give recommendations on that.
Hey, that’s me! Minus the last panel :)
I’m in this picture, and I don’t like it.
I didn’t sign a release!
I spent like 3 hours yesterday deduplicating two functions that were hundreds of lines long and nearly identical. I should probably learn how to use that git command that can diff two files on disk. Luckily I actually enjoy cleaning up code sometimes.
That’s what the
difftool is for.If you’re using a decent development system, you’ll have an executable called
diffinstalled already :)VS Code’s diff tools are killer. Comparison is smarter than most, and you can edit either file as you go.
And if you want to avoid the Microsoft stank, there’s VS Codium that has been de-Microsoft’d, like Chrome vs. Chromium.
If you use VSCode, open both files and then ctrl-shift-P “Compare active file with …”
You’re welcome.
Thank you! I love VS Code
You can use a diff app directly such as meld which is free. Highly recommend.
If you remove the 4th panel then this accurately describes call center customer service
Yeah, pretty much
