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A software developer's wife asked him to get a gallon of milk from the store (lemmy.zip)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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"... and if they have eggs, get a dozen, " she added.

He later came home with 12 gallons of milk.

"Why'd you get so much milk!?!" his wife asked.

He replies, "THEY HAD EGGS!"

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[–] 104 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

Alternate version:

"While you're there, pick up some bread," she added. He never returned.

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    • [–] 27 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    "Buy two forks. Buy two forks for every fork you buy."

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    :(){ :|:& };:

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    • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    What? They apparently had eggs. If, then, else.

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    [–] 29 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    Should have gotten 13 gallons.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    No - he was asked to bring 1 or 12, not 1 and 12

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  • [–] 32 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    try reading it again. Wife clearly says "and" not "or"

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    The comma operator would like to have a word with you. I see a pause after eggs, 12 gallons it is

    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Comma_operator

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Doesn't change it.

    Wife adds 1 gallon of milk to shopping list;

    Wife adds ( eggs, dozen) gallons of milk to shopping list;

    Shopping list has 1 gallon and a dozen gallons for a total of 13 gallons.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago*

    The shopping list doesn’t need to be additive, that’s just one way of interpreting what the wife wrote. There is no one correct way to read a joke as a program (my whole point), that is unless you write an interpreter for jokes :P

    function getGallonOfMilk() {
  return 1;
}

function getDozen() {
  return 12;
}

const hasEggs = store.checkInventory(“eggs”);

const result = (
  getGallonOfMilk(),
  hasEggs && getDozen()
);

console.log(result * "🥛"); // 🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛
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    • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Requirements unclear.

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    [–] 2 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I still don't understand why he managed to get 12 gallons and not 11 or even 10.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    So get a gallon of milk, and IF they have eggs, get a dozen (gallons of milk). Basically this is an if statement meaning if X is true, do this. Well normally we think get a dozen would be get 12 eggs, but because "have eggs = true" that meant get 12 gallons of milk. The opposite would've been eggs=false and he'd come home with 1 gallon.

    I'm not a Dev so I can't write the code better, but I understand the language enough

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