Something I found in our javascript codebase

{
    //...
    isActive: function(active) {
        return (active ? true : false);
    }
    //...
}

Is it even possible to have *too* many ternary operators?

bool isActive = ((running && !done) ? (done || running) : !(running && done)) ? true : (1==2);

Very good ideas for reafctoring in this thread, keep em coming.

How about something akin to what I find in some of my companies legacy code:

ASSERT(isActive); // We should never be inactive so lets just assert in debug, it'll be fine in release

return TRUE;

You have it easy, you are not maintaining legacy PHP code.

This is direct copy-paste from code currently in production.

Guess what is it doing. Hint: in function name.

    function extract_where_from_join($on_condition) {
	$where_list = array();
	
	$anal_list = array('="' => '"', '= "' => '"', "='" => "'", "= '" => "'"); 
	
	$anal_pos = FALSE;
	$anal_end_pos = FALSE;
	$found_anal_from = FALSE;
	$found_anal_to = FALSE;
	foreach ($anal_list as $anal_from => $anal_to) {
	    $anal_pos = strpos($on_condition, $anal_from);
	    if ($anal_pos !== FALSE) {
		$found_anal_from = $anal_from;
		$anal_end_pos = strpos($on_condition, $anal_to, $anal_pos + strlen($anal_from));
		if ($anal_end_pos !== FALSE) {
		    $found_anal_to = $anal_to;
		    break;
		}
	    }
	}
	
	if ($anal_pos !== FALSE && $anal_end_pos !== FALSE) {
	    $anal_value = substr($on_condition, $anal_pos + strlen($found_anal_from), $anal_end_pos - $anal_pos - strlen($found_anal_from));
	    $condition = 'and';
	    $not_space_bw_pos = strbipos($on_condition, $condition, $anal_pos);
	    if ($not_space_bw_pos === FALSE) {
		$where_list[] = array(trim(substr($on_condition, 0, $anal_pos)), $anal_value);
		$on_condition = substr($on_condition, $anal_end_pos + strlen($found_anal_to));
		if ($on_condition === FALSE) {
		    $on_condition = 'TRUE';
		}
	    } else {
		$where_list[] = array(trim(substr($on_condition, $not_space_bw_pos + strlen($condition), $anal_pos - $not_space_bw_pos -strlen($condition))), $anal_value);
		$on_condition = substr($on_condition, 0, $not_space_bw_pos) . substr($on_condition, $anal_end_pos + strlen($found_anal_to));
		if ($on_condition === FALSE) {
		    $on_condition = 'TRUE';
		}
	    }
	}
	
	return array($where_list, $on_condition);
    }

It turns out this is parsing SQL join statement and extracting it's condition to be used elsewhere as "where" condition. Talking about easy way?

You have it easy, you are not maintaining legacy PHP code.

This is direct copy-paste from code currently in production.

Guess what is it doing. Hint: in function name.

8) Holy.. anal... You know, this would be quite an odd naming convention rule to walk into if you got hired by a company. (Use whatever variable names you want, as long as they include at least one porn industry term)

long long johnson = 69 & 0; // Initialize counter to zero

That code looks pretty ridiculous for what it does. I would think you could use a regex for this without much trouble.