If you know what i mean

num is still a newbie variable name.

I'm missing the switch-case here. For if a gender gets added later on. Like "hermaphrodite", or "transgender", or "unknown".

Yes, "unknown" is a valid entry for unborn babies who's gender has not yet been determined.

When I call "getSex()" I expect a return value of "true"

I'd prefer sometime that, separating code and data, and association between value and string.

(also, ternary operator has its uses, but only because it looks more ""cool"" doesn't make it necessarily better)

Why are the comments in wrong order?

@SweetHuman I was wondering why no one responded to that.
Seems like OP confused 3 and 6.

(ow, my array sex_str needs the explicit size NB_SEX, it would be safer)

function getSex() { return "yes please"; }

@lado one months later they learn better English too

Op was just making a joke you all went full balistic on code review!

Damn!!

@fredrf what do you expect, when the joke is "look, I'm not a newbie anymore, now I know how to do it", and posted in such a forum?

@Robbatron It depends on where you are pulling your input data from. You could have a gendertypeid field in the database that just maps to a string, like so, in you application to be displayed on the page.

Personally I would just use enums at that point and be done

@Gauthier I see both views 😁

But I find it funny that a guy throws a joke and guys don't laugh or say it's a bad joke.

What people do is analyze.

I'm just point this out and find it funny 😁😁

one year later
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return num?"male":"female"
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@Robbatron Using an enum is better, but using a string is just throwing type safety out the window and asking for someone to mis-spell it.

The parameter "num" clearly refers to the number of times the caller tries to get sex. What does the return values actually mean? An URL to a pron site for all num>0 seems more appropriate...

@johmsalas That would require the language to support truthy statements.

did anyone notice that the line count is wrong ?

@Robbatron 😄 it has a couple of mistakes, I wrote it in bed on my phone 2 minutes after waking up :) Here's a fix.

This rant is becoming legendary...

@Robbatron nice. Illuminati confirmed ☠