Don't try this Coldfusion code at home
This should probably be subtitled "be thankful if you don't read this language" (ha). Check out this excellent link of horrendously bad code from Micha Schopman on CF-Talk. I'm sure it took far longer to debug than it did to write. <g>
http://www.mschopman.demon.nl/horror.txt
(I had originally attributed this blurb to Matt Osborn but it was actually Micha Schopman.)
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I was hoping some CFer would recognize it from his early years and say "hey - I remember that code!!" ... then tell us what it actually does (ha). -
RUN AWAY!
Seriously, thanks for sharing. I needed a good laugh! -
Having looked at it again, the funniest thing that I saw was the <cfsilent> tag at the top. It smells of an act of desperation, and cfsilent ain't gonna help that code.
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I'm not sure where, but I could swear I've seen that somewhere before.
Ouch. Looking at it just hurts. If anything, at least loop over the form structure or something.
I'm sure there are a hundred better ways to do form validation, however looking at that code just made my day :). -
Hey...at least it's lovingly indented. That should make it easy to delete w/o hurting anything else... -
And there's comments, too! 3 of them!
Granted, it gives us absolutely no clue what the heck it's verifying in 3 parts, but anyway... -
It's not even legal syntax (if that txt file is accurate)... there's an extra cfelse clause there... -
Where you get my code from ;o)
If you cross your eyes and stare at it for 30 seconds it turns into a 3D lump of **** (you fill the blanks)
seriously though, my brain now aches from seeing that - cheers for the laugh -
Where you get my code from ;o)
If you cross your eyes and stare at it for 30 seconds it turns into a 3D lump of **** (you fill the blanks)
seriously though, my brain now aches from seeing that - cheers for the laugh -
Where's the extra cfelse? I see a double-stacked one (not properly indented) where one of the cfelse's isn't capitalized like the rest (maybe what micha fixed?), but it matches a capticalized, double-stacked cfif that's a little left of lining up propery.
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ha! yeah, I just blogged about a waste of code piece http://www.cubicleman.com/?id=51 amazing how folks come up with this stuff, eh? -
who is the mastermind behind this work, we would like to hire him immideately!
:) ~~
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