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[โ€“] kameecoding 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I use it to generate repetitive patterns that's easy to guess what's next, but PITA to write, eg. asserts in Unit tests

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

If your code has repeating patterns, you should probably be writing a function.