Programmer Humor

25040 readers

1440 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

Keep content in english
No advertisements
Posts must be related to programming or programmer topics

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

501

exit (dubvee.org)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

28 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

FINALLY! This has always annoyed me. If you’re gonna go through all the trouble of identifying that I want to exit, just DO it.

[–] wise_pancake 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It’s not really much extra effort though

They just added so e text to the __repr__ method on the exit callable object

That’s much easier than figuring out if your running this interactively and trying to figure out if this is going to break stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Lemme golf that

~ $ python
Python 3.12.10 (main, Apr  9 2025, 18:13:11) [Clang 18.0.3 (https://android.googlesource.com/toolchain/llvm-project d8003a456 on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> class x:
...  def __repr__(s):
...   exit(0)
...
>>> xit = x()
>>> xit
~ $

Not that hard

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

repr is generally assumed to be side effect free and cheap to run, so things like debuggers tend to show repr of things in scope, including possibly exit

also then it behaves differently between repl and script, since repr never gets run. to do it properly it has to be a new repl keyword I imagine, but I still don't know if I'm sold on the idea

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Good points. You're right, it does need solved at the shell level. Glad they did so.

[–] wise_pancake 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The code isn’t high effort, it’s all the stuff you have to think about breaking

But generally I don’t think anyone prints exit in most contexts

Ps mad respect for doing that on your phone