This is why you should never interrupt a programmer.

[Kermitt Gribble]

I can relate to this so much... I printed it and hung it in my cube - of course, people read it, laugh, and proceed to interrupt.

http://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt-a-programmer#!

https://twitter.com/detly/status/394755439314755584

[jakeXT]

1. I'm not really sure what the colon means, I thought it was in the else branch

(condition)?(evaluate if condition was true) : (evaluate if condition was false)

//Invalid in most programming languages. Two of the exceptions are Ruby and Scala
my_variable = if(x > 10) { "foo" } else { "bar" };
//Valid
my_variable = (x > 10)?"foo":"bar";

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_%28computer_programming%29

I always used something like this

if (c == ',') {backtrack = 1;}