Cursed Ways to Increment X

Description

A tall multi-panel Spider-Man meme starts with three Spider-Men pointing at each other, labeled `x++`, `x = x+1`, and `x += 1`. Below, increasingly distorted Spider-Man drawings are paired with stranger equivalent-looking expressions: `x -= -1`, then `x *= 1 + 1 / x;`, and finally `x /= x / (x + 1);`. The technical joke is that many expressions can mathematically increment a value by one, but each rewrite gets less readable, more fragile, and more likely to break on edge cases such as zero or numeric precision.

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SyntaxAbuse CodeReadability CodeQuality CodeGolf CodingHumor Syntax LanguageQuirks VariableNaming FloatingPointPrecision EdgeCase

Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick The last one increments `x` and the probability that code review becomes a wellness intervention.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The last one increments `x` and the probability that code review becomes a wellness intervention.
@sylfn 5y

x /= x / (x - -1)
@sylfn 5y

just because when x == "2": x + 1 = 21
@sylfn 5y

anx x - -1 equals to 3
@sylfn 5y

we can substitute -1 by some shit like cos(4atan(1))
@dwanford 5y

didn't work when x integer
1. @dwanford 5y
  
  3 case, i mean
2. @Stepan_Poznyak 5y
  
  x *= 1 + 1.0 / x