I definitely agree with NevemTeve on this: these are
r-e-a-l-l-y ... b-a-d pieces of code. I hope that no test-author lifted them from some actual application ...
... but I'll wager that s/he did exactly that.
*Sigh*
. . .
awkward squirming . . .
Upon re-reading my previous post ... which I did not delete ... I also feel that I owe a public apology. I was out-of-line in saying what I did, in such a public place. I'm sorry. I was dead-wrong.