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xkcd #2954: Bracket Symbols (xkcd.com)
submitted 4 months ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to c/xkcd@lemmy.world
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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ouch. If you ever catches yourself writing something like this, stop. Intermediate values deserve names too. Even Haskell developers wouldn't go into such extreme namelessness.

[–] FierySpectre@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

People reading decompiled inlined code: "wait this isn't normal?"