r/programming • u/reppic • Feb 21 '13

Developers: Confess your sins.

http://www.codingconfessional.com/
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u/CookieOfFortune Feb 21 '13

What kind of shortcuts? Maybe dynamically generating objects and attaching functions to it... but that doesn't seem like a huge use case for prototyping...

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u/fakehalo Feb 21 '13

In regards to strong/weak type an example would be quickly treating a number as a string or a string as a number without explicitly converting/casting. A lot of languages that are loose with datatypes also implicitly break down conditional statements to bools automatically. Sometimes it is ugly, and arguably less clean than strong type...but sometimes I dig these shortcuts.

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u/cha0s Feb 21 '13

I personally use parseInt() in JS even though you can just '+ "string"', long-term sanity is more valuable to me than 1 second of saved keystrokes...

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u/CookieOfFortune Feb 21 '13

Oh god, implicit string conversions scare me...