bool isEven(int num) {
   return !isOdd(num);
}

bool isOdd(int num) {
   return !isEven(num);
}

I always figured this was a nice joke but obviously not code that would ever actually be written by someone… Then I ran into this millimeter to inch conversion code in production this past month:

if (isNaN(mm)) return 0;
if (mm == 6) {
    inch = 0.125;
}
else if (mm == 8) inch = 0.25;
else if (mm == 10) inch = 0.375;
else if (mm == 15) inch = 0.5;
else if (mm == 20) inch = 0.75;
else if (mm == 25) inch = 1;
else if (mm == 30) inch = 1.25;
else if (mm == 40) inch = 1.5;
else if (mm == 50) inch = 2;
else if (mm == 60) inch = 2.5;
else if (mm == 80) inch = 3;
else if (mm == 90) inch = 3.5;
else if (mm == 100) inch = 4;
...

I’ve actually seen this type of code produced by a human-being who was trying to write good code. It was one of the students in my introduction to programming class in university, we had to write a function that squared a number or something, and he had written hundreds of lines of if-statements. Sometimes you just use what you know to complete an assignment I guess 🤷

That’s terrible! Didn’t we all learn that each method must have exactly one return statement? Please refactor to use a return variable and a single return. And get off my lawn!

Good solution! I think you should show the last 3 lines that makes it work tho. FIFY:

private bool IsEven(int number){
    if (number == 1) return false;
    else if (number == 2) return true;
    else if (number == 0) return true;
    else if (number == -1) return false;
    else return !IsEven(abs(number) - 1);
}

Not sure why people still implement this themselves when there are APIs that will do it for you, like https://isevenapi.xyz/

When you’re paid by line…

Those companies that judge output by lines of code are asking for this

private void GenerateCode(){
  println("private bool IsEven(int number){");
  println("if (number == 1) return false");
  for(int i == 2; true; i += 2){
    println("if (number == " + i.tostring() + " return true";
    println("if (number == " + (i + 1).tostring() + " return false";
  }
}

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You missed some cases…