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Welcome to the wonderful world of code obfuscation (imgur.com)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by DroneRights@lemm.ee to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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Yes, someone actually did this and I found it running on our server

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[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'd make it a named function for clarity and testability and proceed to give zero shits how it is implemented. I would unironically write this code if it worked, but I wouldn't inline it to reduce the cognitive load of reading it.

[–] Cosmicomical@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This, and maybe a couple of unit tests

[–] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

7 unit tests should be enough I think

[–] Cosmicomical@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago

Lol i can't lie, it took me a while to get the joke. I feel so dumb