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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.

Post your Best, your worst, and your most interesting. But please - no programming questions . This forum is purely for amusement and discussions on code snippets. All actual programming questions will be removed.

 
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GeneralRevolutionary new way to iterate indexable collections. Who needs to know how many elements they have? PinPopular
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Vladimir Svyatski18-Apr-11 5:54
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You made me laugh. You even managed to test the stuff Smile | :)

Actually I can even say how this wonderful code has emerged. One "colleague" of mine (I don't consider him as a real colleague to be honest, 'cause he produces sh*t regularly) was too lame to read documentation. Every wise enough human being must have a thought in his/her mind that if a collection's element can be retrieved by index, there must be some kind of function/property like Size, Count, Length, etc. allowing us to know when to stop. So that "guru" had found function that retrieves an object by index, but had failed to scroll the documentation a little further to find number of elements. And little genius invented the construction you saw above. I had no words when I first saw the stuff.
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