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[โ€“] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Legacy code:

  • that's a fallback from the 80ies...

  • this gets never executed...

  • yet another undefined variable...

  • ohh, that's clever!

  • Jeffery wtf is this?
  • ok so why didn't we remove this from the codebase!?
  • define the variable please I'm begging for just a smidge of readability!!! ... Oh that's actually remarkably clever