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Comenting code (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Self-explainable, when you aren't writing spaghetti Perl scripts.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

//forgive my sins, it took me 2 hours to nail down this arcane spell. if anyone touches this they will know my wrath
=(/&)((//((%=)(&)%)(&()

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Then it breaks years after you’ve left and someone has no choice but to touch it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or breaks a year later and your have to figure out what the fuck you made. The worst thing in the world is when you leave it for the next guy, and you end up being the next guy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah…. I’ve definitely been the next guy on a couple bad regexes that I wrote