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"Go the store and pick up a jug of milk. If they have eggs, get a dozen." Programmer returns home with 13 jugs of milk

• groby_b 14y ago
  Seriously? An ancient programming joke, with a gratuitous off-by-one error?
  • chimeracoder 14y ago
    It's not gratuitous. One jug + one dozen = 13 jugs.
    • mbatanian 14y ago
      jugs = 1; if (have eggs) { jugs = 12; } Get a dozen, not a dozen more.
      • T-hawk 14y ago
        cart.addJugs(1); if (haveEggs) cart.addJugs(12); Now the cart has 13 jugs.
        • wlesieutre 14y ago
          I'd say that "get a dozen" implies "jugs = 12" and not "jugs += 12". If you wanted to get a dozen more, you'd say "get a dozen more"
          • pash 14y ago
            This is why we don't program in English.
            • fnordfnordfnord 14y ago
              And why it is so hard to write a good specification.
          • AndrewDucker 14y ago
            "get a dozen" implies "jugs += 12"