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[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 102 points 2 days ago (2 children) 
if (error) {
    continue;
}
[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 70 points 2 days ago (4 children) 
try {
    operation();
} catch {
    // nice weather, eh?
}
[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Starting with Java 21 (I think), they've introduced ignored variables, so you can now actually do this:

try {
    operation();
} catch (Exception _) {
    // nice weather, eh?
}

Edit: forgot that this is about JS lel

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So basically the same as a discard in C#?

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah, Python has it as well. I think the only real use of it is code readability since you declare that this variable will never be used.

[–] __ghost__@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Same thing right?

[–] Traister101@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If your joking yes, if your not Java and Java Script are seperate things.

[–] dajoho@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

His joking?

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Actually made this mistake in front of 20 people the other day. Guy at my job mentioned coding in java and I asked if he was doing web dev 🤦

[–] BangersAndMash@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Plenty of java back end web development, so maybe not as embarrassing as you felt?

[–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

He said "I've been closing in C# and Java for 2 years" and I asked, in front of everyone, "are you doing web dev?" And he just coldly said no

See this could have been fine if I didn't double down and go "then what are you using java for... OH WAIT"

[–] DjMeas@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago

☑️ PR Approved

[–] lengau@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago 
with contextlib.suppress(BaseException):
    do_thing()
[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

Thanks. I hate it.

[–] Willem@kutsuya.dev 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

On Error Resume Next

Visual Basic is a beautiful language

[–] runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 16 hours ago

I legitimately use this line in one of my scripts because range.find returns an error of the value is not found. The use case is taking a 2d matrix saved as an array, with data collected from multiple excel tabs and rearranging it for a CSV upload into Salesforce. The initial array contains values that the rest of the data does not have, so when I search for a non existent value, I can skip the error.

Of course vba COULD just implement try/catch statements and that'd be so much cleaner, but alas.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago 
On error goto 0

Was always syntacticly confusing for me.