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xkcd #2954: Bracket Symbols (xkcd.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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