On 11/9/19 9:34 AM, Anthony de Boer via talk wrote:
Dave Collier-Brown via talk wrote:
On 2019-11-08 11:41 a.m., Giles Orr via talk wrote:
Eyeballing simple regex is hard enough, but mentally parsing out a complex full line regex that looks like inline garbage without the benefit of comments isn't something I recommend or appreciate. An early boss described it as "programming in line noise". I've seen too many cases where the comments explaining what a block of code did were *wrong*, and debugging took far too long due to coders reading, trusting, or simply being distracted by this alternate theory of what the code was doing.
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