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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

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GeneralThe non-blocking command line parameter Pin
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Or, you know, a for loop. Or maybe a function that accepts a data reader and an index. Or a data reader, an index, and a padding length (if it's not always 9). Or create an anonymous delegate to capture the data reader to avoid passing the same parameter over and over, then each function call would only require an index and a padding length. Or a function that takes an array of indexes ({0, 1, 2}) and a padding length. Or create a data type that allows indexes and padding lengths to be paired together, then functions applied to that data in one call. Or since they're all pairs and they're all the same data type (int), use a 2D array with an inline initializer rather than a custom data type.

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