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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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