CodeSOD: Doing the Assignment
by Remy Porter from The Daily WTF on (#796QR)
Today's code maybe isn't much of a WTF, but it does point in the general direction of, "Damn, you live like this?" Poor Nancy unfortunately does.
int x = 3;int y = 4;int z = 4;x = y = z;
Each variable is declared and initialized, and then they're set equal to each other. It just raises the question though, why do it this way? Why not declare them and then x = y = z = 4, if we want that? Or maybe, for more clarity, int x = DEFAULT_VALUE; would be more legible, and we can skip the multiple assignments on one line. Why does x get set to 3 but then overwritten?
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