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[–] [email protected] 219 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (33 children)

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

[–] Quetzalcutlass 58 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I had someone submit a pull request recently that, in addition to their actual changes, also removed every single parenthesis that wasn't strictly necessary in a file full of 3D math functions. I know it was probably the fault of an autoformatter they used, but I was still the most offended I've ever been at a pull request.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago

Autoformatter? More like obfuscator

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