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A wife tells her programmer husband: β€œGo to the store and buy a gallon of milk. If they have eggs, get six.”

He comes back with six gallons of milk. When she asks why, he replies: β€œThey had eggs".

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Skill issue. Used an implied "of them", which is idiomatic in the language, but forgot to update the value of "them" first. Without that, taking the first value is compliant with the standard.

/s, but only if we assume us programmers have common sense. ^/s^