CodeSOD: Totally Valid

Greg's co-worker really wanted to make sure that a variable was correctly set to true or false. So they did this:

if (isValid == true){isValid = true;}else{isValid = false;}

If isValid is true, set it to true, otherwise set it to false. isValid is a boolean in C#, so the only options it could have are true and false.

The real WTF is that in languages with truthiness, this code may actually be useful- converting a falsey value to a literal false. But in C#, this is both useless and stupid.

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