The Weird and The Wonderful

Spunky Coder wrote:

probably the coder wants the program to do nothing..

protected void Foo()
{
  //...
  PreProcess(arg);
  //...
}


private void PreProcess(string arg)
{
  try
  {
    return;
  }
  catch(Exception ex)
  {
    // failed to return, run (fake restart) the program again
    main();
  }
}

MarkBrock wrote:

I cannot begin to imagine how the person who wrote this code thinks...

Saurabh.Garg wrote:

it was removed but function itself was not removed

Saurabh.Garg wrote:

since I knew nothing about code base

protected void Foo()
{
    //...
    PreProcess(arg);
    //...
}

private void PreProcess(string arg)
{
    try
    {
        throw new Exception("Still being worked on..");
    }
    catch(Exception ex)
    {
        //....
    }
    return;
}

for(int i=0;i<100;i++)
{
  if(i==10)
    i=i; // <- break point
}

Mladen Jankovic wrote:

It's very useful debugging technique, especially in loops, although you can use "Breakpoint Conditions" for that matter: