Was writing some code today and ended up with “Dictionary<string, List<Dictionary<string, string>>> resultDictionary”
Does anyone else think that this is hideous? It’s a dictionary keyed by strings and holding lists of dictionaries keyed by strings and holding strings. And it is what you get when you have a statically typed language(C#) and no native dictionaries.
The code is trying to build a tree to encode as JSON to pass to javascript to represent as a tree widget…try saying that ten times.
I know what you’re thinking…and no, the code is no longer there, it only survived for a few mins before another iteration replaced it with something less icky..I tend to use evolutionary steps and refactor as i go.