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Ask HN: What are your favorite programming questions
we are running a coding contest on our website. What is the cleverest programming related question you have ever come across?
- acron0 15y agoWhy is C++'s "this" a pointer and not a reference?
- combiclickwise 15y agothanks
- ColinWright 15y agoWhat does this return: try { return true; } finally { return false; } What Neil Fraser has to say about this is too good to leave out here: The result is consistent in Java, JavaScript and Python. I wrote this snippet on a whiteboard here at Google. For the next couple of weeks engineers passing by would abruptly stop, transfixed by the paradox. Nerd sniping. I now use it during hiring interviews, if the candidate suffers a similar breakdown, I know we've got a keeper.
- combiclickwise 15y agoBrilliant. Thanks.