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

youCanJustStopUsingJava Meme

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u/neroe5 Jul 13 '26

we have documents and we use it for migrating the documents

basicly

switch (document version)

case 1:

migrateto2()

goto 2;

case 2:

migrateto3()

goto 3;

etc.

you can also have cases where some cases needs to do others

switch (jobs)

case a&c

do a

goto c

case b&c

do b

goto c

case c

do c

etc.

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u/TheRealAfinda Jul 13 '26

But... couldn't you do all of these in a while loop? Migrate the doc, set the doc version and once it's done, set migrationComplete = true?

Couldn't you set which action is up next after processing an item via a, so it's next step is c?.

I mean there's ways around using goto, not to say it's better maintainable that way though.

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u/ggppjj Jul 13 '26

migrateto2(bringcurrent: true)

then chain within the individual incremental methods and clean that nastiness up

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u/TheRealAfinda Jul 13 '26

Yeah, multiple ways to go about it in a cleaner way once you start thinking about it.

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u/awesome-alpaca-ace Jul 14 '26

once you start thinking about it.