The 4-chan Go programmer

Re:The 4-chan Go programmer by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @04:03PM (#41383644)

I mean to a point that makes sense; you got your base data types like idk, a bank account number which can be validated, which is inside a bank account which can be validated, which is in a customer which can be validated, etc etc. Visitor pattern style, I believe?

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Re:The 4-chan Go programmer by binary132 on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @04:10PM (#41383710)

imagine allowing invalid values to exist

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Re:The 4-chan Go programmer by withinboredom on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @04:23PM (#41383880)

This is actually my preferred approach. If you want to put a 4gb base64 as your phone number, go right on ahead; best believe I will truncate it to a sensible length before I store it, but sure. Who am I to question your reality.

Sadly, people abuse shit like that to pass messages (like naming Spotify playlists with messages to loved/friends/colleagues while in jail) and maybe we have to assert a tiny bit of sanity on the world.

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Re:The 4-chan Go programmer by steezeburger on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @05:59PM (#41384892)

How do prisoners have access to Spotify?

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Re:The 4-chan Go programmer by ozr on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @09:25PM (#41386303)

Presumably some feature/jailbreak of JPay (and the like) tablets.

https://offers.jpay.com/jp5-tablets/

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Re:The 4-chan Go programmer by ozr on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @04:17PM (#41383807)

Sounds awful.

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Re:The 4-chan Go programmer by quectophoton on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @04:27PM (#41383950)

> imagine allowing invalid values to exist

Pretty common, for example when using databases as a mostly dumb store with all the logic in application code, and then a second application (or big refactor) appears and they introduce a subtle bug that results in an invalid `INSERT` (or whatever), and the database happily accepts it instead of rejecting it.

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Re:The 4-chan Go programmer by agency on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @04:33PM (#41384025)

imagine enforcing invariants as part of the design of a software system

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Re:The 4-chan Go programmer by nickpeterson on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @05:33PM (#41384654)

The nerve, taking good jobs away from young qa testers. Wait till the IT Union hears of this!

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Re:The 4-chan Go programmer by binary132 on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @10:24PM (#41386644)

I’m just saying enforce invariants at construction time / type-designing instead of with the validity checks

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Re:The 4-chan Go programmer by zimpenfish on Thursday August 29, 2024 @04:07AM (#41388456)

This wasn't that kind of validation - it was "is this token allowed to do this thing?" Like "validate your parking" kind of scenario.

(And yes, it should probably have been "CheckAuthorisation")

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Re:The 4-chan Go programmer by binary132 on Friday August 30, 2024 @10:04AM (#41400859)

naming things is so hard.

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Re:The 4-chan Go programmer by zimpenfish on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @04:36PM (#41384061)

That would make sense but this was one piece of data being validated against a lookup based off that data. The previous devs just had a, uh, Unique™ style of development. I swear they must have been on some kind of "editor tab count" bonus scheme.

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