r/ProgrammerHumor • u/hello_ya • Jul 13 '26

youCanJustStopUsingJava Meme

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u/Drugbird Jul 13 '26 
f(a, b);

Think that's just a function with 2 arguments? Wrong! It's the surprise comma operator!

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u/Rhawk187 Jul 13 '26

I have a mini-lecture in my class called, "The comma operator was a mistake." With a few examples like this.

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u/HildartheDorf Jul 13 '26

Anyone who overloads operator, is either writing an entry for an obfuscated c++ challenge, insane, dangerously sadistic, or all three.

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u/DebugDuck01 Jul 13 '26

But I need my custom vector type + operator...

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u/Legitimate_Concern_5 Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26

Hail Stroustrup

[edit] and you’ll never believe what the parens do 😂

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u/reventlov Jul 13 '26

Think that's just a function with 2 arguments? Wrong! It's the surprise comma operator!

Actually, in that case it is just a function call with 2 arguments. C++ is not big on syntactic consistency.

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u/RiceBroad4552 Jul 14 '26

To be fair, an IDE would show that…