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[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 111 points 1 month ago
[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 75 points 1 month ago
try {
    operation();
} catch {
    // nice weather, eh?
}
[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Starting with Java 21 (I think), they've introduced ignored variables, so you can now actually do this:

try {
    operation();
} catch (Exception _) {
    // nice weather, eh?
}

Edit: forgot that this is about JS lel

So basically the same as a discard in C#?

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, Python has it as well. I think the only real use of it is code readability since you declare that this variable will never be used.

[-] __ghost__@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago
[-] Traister101@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago

If your joking yes, if your not Java and Java Script are seperate things.

[-] dajoho@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

His joking?

[-] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Actually made this mistake in front of 20 people the other day. Guy at my job mentioned coding in java and I asked if he was doing web dev 🤦

[-] BangersAndMash@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Plenty of java back end web development, so maybe not as embarrassing as you felt?

[-] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

He said "I've been closing in C# and Java for 2 years" and I asked, in front of everyone, "are you doing web dev?" And he just coldly said no

See this could have been fine if I didn't double down and go "then what are you using java for... OH WAIT"

[-] DjMeas@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

☑️ PR Approved

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

Thanks. I hate it.

[-] lengau@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago
with contextlib.suppress(BaseException):
    do_thing()
[-] Willem@kutsuya.dev 19 points 1 month ago

On Error Resume Next

Visual Basic is a beautiful language

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
On error goto 0 

Was always syntacticly confusing for me.

[-] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

I legitimately use this line in one of my scripts because range.find returns an error of the value is not found. The use case is taking a 2d matrix saved as an array, with data collected from multiple excel tabs and rearranging it for a CSV upload into Salesforce. The initial array contains values that the rest of the data does not have, so when I search for a non existent value, I can skip the error.

Of course vba COULD just implement try/catch statements and that'd be so much cleaner, but alas.

[-] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 65 points 1 month ago

If I can't see it, is it really there?

[-] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 59 points 1 month ago
[-] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 57 points 1 month ago

If it wanted to get my attention it should have been an error

[-] cbazero@programming.dev 49 points 1 month ago
[-] breakingcups@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

I would add: until it doesn't.

[-] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 25 points 1 month ago

This is why:

"It ain't stupid if it works."

is fundamentally incorrect.

[-] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago

Sometimes it’s better to hope while closing eyes

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 39 points 1 month ago

Warnings are for ignorings :3

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 39 points 1 month ago

Eh it's Javascript. Anything goes

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah, array.length is mutable in javascript. I'm surprised it caught on.

[-] lesnout27@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

If i can just suppress the warnings which need to be fixed till morning in my buggy code, anything goes!

[-] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 month ago

Warnings? We’ll come back and address those later. Maybe once we’re feature complete. Or maybe shortly after that.

Don't worry. We'll totally fix all of them soon. Promise. Hand to God. They definitely will not be here five years from now.

[-] pscamodio@feddit.it 25 points 1 month ago

Meanwhile in another universe one of my biggest win was to introduce this line in our PR validation pipeline.

eslint . --max-warnings 0
[-] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

Works so well, and soothes the warning annoyance brain, and keeps warnings from eventually becoming errors.

[-] pscamodio@feddit.it 3 points 1 month ago

In a codebase with a lot of warnings is even better for me to add a disable comments for all the existing warning and then not allow any new one in.

And then each time a part of the code needs to be touched the existing warning there should be solved too.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 month ago

Several times I've set the max warnings to whatever the current warning count is, and then decreased that over time.

[-] coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafe 22 points 1 month ago

Actually fixing warnings is for noobs

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 1 month ago

if they mattered they'd be errors I'm sure

[-] coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 month ago

That's when you do CTRL+C, CTRL+V

[-] Classy@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago

I, too, place 2> /dev/null after every line

[-] bhamlin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Yes, but 2>&1 > /dev/null is the real hero.

[-] far_university190@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

No, > /dev/null 2>&1 is. If try your example but with file instead null, stderr content not in file.

Because x>y not redirect x to y, but duplicate y and set x to y-duplicate. See bash manpage REDIRECTION (your example in that section for what not work).

As i understand, your example set 2 to what 1 is, then set 1 to null. Now 2 not null, but what 1 before.

[-] bhamlin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

So, the joke is that it should hide all output.

[-] far_university190@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes it do, your example do too. But if test thing and replace null with file, suddenly stderr missing. Happen to me, 5h debug session. Hope to help prevent that for other people.

[-] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

edit: works better when used together with StackOverflow.comment.enabled = false;

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

-ErrorActionPreference SilentlyContinue

[-] brlemworld@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't get it. This isn't funny. I wouldn't approve it in merge request. Most wouldn't.

[-] skrlet13@feddit.cl 8 points 1 month ago

Trying to hide problems and incompetence is the joke. A lot of people don't want problems solved, they just don't want to see them, and will take the easy route. If you just want that, this is the easy route.

Incompetent? Absolutely, that's the joke.

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