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[-] rockerface@lemm.ee 227 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

As a software developer, the less ambiguous your notation is, the better it is for everyone involved. Not only will I use brackets, I'll split my expression into multiple rows and use tabs to make it as readable as humanly possible. And maybe throw a comment or 2 if there's still some black magic involved

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 65 points 7 months ago

As a professor said, most programming languages don't care about readability and whitespace. But we care because humans need it to parse meaning. Thus, write code for people, not for the machine. Always assume that someone with no knowledge of the context will have to debug it, and be kind to them. Because that someone might be you in six months when you have completely forgotten how the code works.

[-] feinstruktur@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago

This. Always be kind to your future self.

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