I had a live code interview last week where one of the engineers kept pushing me to use a try/except on out of bounds index access as flow control to break out of a for loop, and I cannot stop thinking about the brain that would consider that normal. He was a principal.
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I'm sitting here trying to think about how this would work in practice and I cant. You except on out of bounds and do what? break? I don't get it -_-;
Function that takes needle and haystack strings and returns a bool to indicate if the needle was found. Iterating through string slices to find a needle in a haystack and catching the exception when you're accessing an out of bounds slice, then return false out of the exception because you didn't find the needle in the haystack after iterating through the possible matching slices.
Would you be surprised to find out he said "bro" a lot and when I looked up his LinkedIn, he had interned for one of the most reprehensible Republicans in Congress?
nah brah, I wouldn't haha. I had a guy like that at my last regular fulltime employee thing. Always talking about rogans podcast and his tradwife.
