I so hope there is truth in this
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Iāve just found a Stringoolean in some Java code.
String blah = "";
[loop thing]
if (blah.equals("")) {
doSomething();
} else {
somethingDifferent();
}
blah = "1";
[end loop]
Sorry non-developers, you wonāt get this.
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I donāt get this.
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Excellent 
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I donāt get this, and am currently Developing quite the turtleās head.
A āstringā (a series of characters) is being used as a true / false flag.
There is already a concept meant explicitly for the true/false notion. Itās called a ābooleanā.
Using as String for this purpose is as inappropriate as using Excel to track cases of a global pandemic. There are tools intended for this sort of thing, and Excel isnāt one of them.
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Ahh!..
Still donāt get it.
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Itās worse for me, I donāt get it, but there was a time when I did get it, and even got paid to do it, but now I donāt and brane wonāt, and if I squeeze too hard some poo will come out.
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I suspect that the above snippet was brought to you by the same person who was using a map where the same datum was used as both key and value. This concept is more commonly known as a set.
The more troubling thing is where this code is (hint: itās not in a dev environment) and what itās doing.
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Have you stumbled across Cummingsā root code? In Java with no garbage collection, naturally?
That would be
10 GOTO BARNARDCASTLE
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please, even my students dont do thisā¦
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FFS, itās only 15% alcohol. I wouldnāt even be drunk.
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