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Parentheses (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 days ago by Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Squibbles@lemmy.ca 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Years ago I remember reading Visual Studio c++ patch notes that mentioned having fixed a bug with having more than 255-deep nested parentheses. Good times

[–] FierySpectre@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

The max at my job is 20 and it's already horrifying. (C# though) (The variable naming also sucks, a bool 'ok' is constantly overwritten and 12/20 indents are 'if (ok) { ') (guess who's leaving that job, large part because of the coding practices)

[–] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

imagine the spaghetti code that someone had to go through to find that bug