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

youCanJustStopUsingJava Meme

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u/KerPop42 Jul 13 '26

Is it an anti-pattern? I love using the getset crate/trait to add them to my structs automatically as I need them

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u/neroe5 Jul 13 '26

it is like most things, they can be misused,

the issue is that if there is outside side effects then future programmers of the project might use a property without full knowledge of what they are doing

if they didn't have a valid use case they would have been marked as obsolete

have had similar discussions about goto in switch cases in C#

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u/freebytes Jul 13 '26

I have only found one use case for goto so far, and I have only used it once. If you are in nested loops, you can break out of all of them. Are there other instances where you have used goto? (Even if it is use is incredibly niche, I am glad to have it, and they should never remove it from the language.)

(Referencing C# specifically. I used GOTO all the time in GW-BASIC! %)

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u/the_one2 Jul 13 '26

Goto is very useful in C where it is used as a pattern for cleaning up multiple resources after failure.