Reproducing Conditionals in the Room

THESE "REPRODUCING CONDITIONALS" YOU KEEP TALKING ABOUT ARE THEY... IN THE ROOM WITH US RIGHT NOW? The problem with switch statements and if/else chains is that they replicate like gerbils. If you aren't careful to sequester them in the early stages of your project, you'll find them reproducing in every corner of your application.

Dr. Phil questions a patient about the supposedly “reproducing conditionals,” parodying the language of a therapist confronting an imagined problem. The accompanying post jokes that excessive switch statements and if/else chains multiply throughout a codebase like gerbils, making the meme a reaction to messy, overcomplicated programming logic.

• @gentoomemes / 8713 2024-01-14