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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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Rob Grainger28-Sep-14 23:20
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Eddy Vluggen27-Aug-14 7:33
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sloosecannon27-Aug-14 7:41
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Richard Deeming27-Aug-14 7:53
mveRichard Deeming27-Aug-14 7:53 
Taking the code from Vark111's post, and assuming C#:
C#
if (null == value || (null).Equals(value)) {

If value isn't null, the second part will be evaluated. Since the second part tries to call the Equals method on a null reference, it would throw a NullReferenceException. D'Oh! | :doh:

Thankfully, the C# compiler is smart enough to prevent you from compiling this code - you'll get an "Operator '.' cannot be applied to operand of type '<null>'" compiler error.



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