A software developer's wife asked him to get a gallon of milk from the store

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“… and if they have eggs, get a dozen, " she added.

He later came home with 12 gallons of milk.

“Why’d you get so much milk!?!” his wife asked.

He replies, “THEY HAD EGGS!”

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Alternate version:

“While you’re there, pick up some bread,” she added. He never returned.

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“Some say he’s still there picking up bread to this day…”

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and when he returned empty-handed he answered “I then set the bread back down”

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Obviously someone else then took the bread, the only way to break the cycle.

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“Buy two forks. Buy two forks for every fork you buy.”

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:(){ :|:& };:

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Aahh, the ol’ botox lips, raised monobrow, grumpy face and the two toothed irony wiking emoticons.

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isn’t this loss?

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This is old ,the forkbomb !

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What? They apparently had eggs. If, then, else.

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Requirements unclear.

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Should have gotten 13 gallons.

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No - he was asked to bring 1 or 12, not 1 and 12

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try reading it again. Wife clearly says “and” not “or”

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The comma operator would like to have a word with you. I see a pause after eggs, 12 gallons it is

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Comma_operator

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Doesn’t change it.

Wife adds 1 gallon of milk to shopping list;

Wife adds ( eggs, dozen) gallons of milk to shopping list;

Shopping list has 1 gallon and a dozen gallons for a total of 13 gallons.

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The shopping list doesn’t need to be additive, that’s just one way of interpreting what the wife wrote. There is no one correct way to read a joke as a program (my whole point), that is unless you write an interpreter for jokes :P

function getGallonOfMilk() {
  return 1;
}

function getDozen() {
  return 12;
}

const hasEggs = store.checkInventory(“eggs”);

const result = (
  getGallonOfMilk(),
  hasEggs && getDozen()
);

console.log(result * "🥛"); // 🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛
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1 gallon. If they have eggs, get a dozen.

If you take that as anything other than a dozen gallons, ie 12 gallons, you’re wrong.

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Found the BSAs

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I like the discussion in this thread.

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I still don’t understand why he managed to get 12 gallons and not 11 or even 10.

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So get a gallon of milk, and IF they have eggs, get a dozen (gallons of milk). Basically this is an if statement meaning if X is true, do this. Well normally we think get a dozen would be get 12 eggs, but because “have eggs = true” that meant get 12 gallons of milk. The opposite would’ve been eggs=false and he’d come home with 1 gallon.

I’m not a Dev so I can’t write the code better, but I understand the language enough

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eggs?(milk=12):(milk=1);

return milk;

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Ahh, my bad. I forgot that in English dozen means 12 but dosens means 10*n with n > 1.

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NP. We don’t even use dosens in America so I learned something new!

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people say tens for multiples of 10

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