It’s strange what people put up with in C#

Re:It’s strange what people put up with in C# by chrisandchris on Saturday August 15, 2020 @11:07AM (#24169386)

I think what he meant is the different (implicitly assumed by human brain) output of those two statements:

someList.Add(obj); someStr.Format(„%d“);

While the first one cleary modifies the list someList, the second one only _returns_ the modified string and someStr’s value does not change. IMHO fornatted text is a different (new) object therefore I don‘t see his issue, and I also think there‘s a shift towards immutable, which would clear such a thing up.

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Re:It’s strange what people put up with in C# by fireattack on Saturday August 15, 2020 @12:03PM (#24169848)

I feel like your example is talking about having the result "in-place" or not, which is an entirely different from what he's complaining (semicolon suspends output).

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Re:It’s strange what people put up with in C# by chrisandchris on Saturday August 15, 2020 @12:06PM (#24169878)

> In project programming this hit me this week with a bug: > value.Format(...); > return true; > when I actually wanted > return value.Format(...); > This is "implicit information loss" [..]

I don‘t see any semicolon missing.

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Re:It’s strange what people put up with in C# by fireattack on Saturday August 15, 2020 @12:11PM (#24169918)

Oh sorry, didn't notice you're talking about the first half of point #1.

To be honest, I have no idea what he's expecting with that "return true". How would that be different in any other language?

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Re:It’s strange what people put up with in C# by chrisandchris on Saturday August 15, 2020 @04:55PM (#24172321)

I think he‘s expecting someStr.Format() to format the value of the object someStr _instead_ of returning a new object containing the fornatted string.

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