A term from standup comedy, referring to the punchline in a routine.
At my current team, we have taken to calling "The Money Line" (with the "The") these details:
- in production code, the line in a positive branch that will proceed down the call stack towards a profitable side-effect
- in test code, the Activate line in the AssembleActivateAssert pattern
We find this verbiage useful, because sometimes we refactor TheMoneyLine away, and have to find it again!
--PhlIp