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Welcome to the wonderful world of code obfuscation (imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

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Yes, someone actually did this and I found it running on our server

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[–] MagicShel 23 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This, and maybe a couple of unit tests

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

7 unit tests should be enough I think

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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