What is the name of this bad practice / anti-pattern?

Question

I\'m trying to explain to my team why this is bad practice, and am looking for an anti-pattern reference to help in my explanation. This is a very large enterprise app, so here

Answer 1

In order to me the best is to explain that in term of computational complexity. Draw two chart showing the number of operation required in term of count(listOfThingsThatSupportX ) and count(listOfThings ) and compare with the solution you propose.