What's the Name of this Anti-Pattern?

Asked Jun 05 '13 at 19:48

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What's the name of the anti-pattern illustrated by this example?

if (something()) {
  return true;
} else {
  return false;
}

It's a DRY violation but I've seen this specific one so much I'm wondering if it has a name.

asked Jun 05 '13 at 19:48

Josh Johnson

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The shorter version is http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ReturnBooleanEvaluations but I'm not sure what the antipattern is called. – Jacob Krall Jun 05 '13 at 19:51
somebody tried to name it (but it's not very memorable): http://newcodeflow.com/blog/2012/10/16/common-antipatterns-in-ruby-and-rails – smp7d Jun 06 '13 at 02:36
We may have to coin this ourselves. – Josh Johnson Jun 10 '13 at 17:24
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call it the return something: `return something();` :) same net effect – Mark Schultheiss Aug 20 '13 at 21:28

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