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Parentheses (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month 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)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

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