Nope, just stories from my day job.
One time, to solve the problem of "we want floating point numbers that are close to be considered equal" on an object, the programmer decided to take every field of that object (reflectively of course) turn that into a string, and then compare the two strings together.
Another time, in order to convert a LocalDate to our own internal date representation, a dev decided to toString the local date, split on the `-`s to extract the day month year. (Yes, localdate has day, month, year methods).
One time, to convert an int to a double a dev decided to turn that int into a string and then used "Double.parseDouble" to turn that int into a double (I wish I were joking).
All these and more were found through the joys of profiling :D
One time, to solve the problem of "we want floating point numbers that are close to be considered equal" on an object, the programmer decided to take every field of that object (reflectively of course) turn that into a string, and then compare the two strings together.
Another time, in order to convert a LocalDate to our own internal date representation, a dev decided to toString the local date, split on the `-`s to extract the day month year. (Yes, localdate has day, month, year methods).
One time, to convert an int to a double a dev decided to turn that int into a string and then used "Double.parseDouble" to turn that int into a double (I wish I were joking).
All these and more were found through the joys of profiling :D