I mean obviously in some case it is provable, like one move before checkmate. But I talked about general case, the same way as you talk about worst case in big O notation...
Yes, and if we go alllllllllllll the way back to the original topic of the article, some "bad code" situations are provable. It is not entirely subjective.
A second pass on this. THIS is bad code because it is ambiguous to the reader.
8 / 2(2 + 2)
There's a big internet argument as to whether it's 1 or 16, and it is bad code because there are multiple justifiable results from it, and the next person to come on the code may have a different interpretation.
but to me this seems like outlier, rather than typical example
I provided you an entire list of quantifiably "bad code" principles in my other comment. None of them are outliers, IME; I've yet to find a single contradiction to any of them in any discussion about coding practice. :)
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The overarching point is, you said "you can't prove that X chess move is best." And I just proved that, actually, yes, you can in some cases.
I mean obviously in some case it is provable, like one move before checkmate. But I talked about general case, the same way as you talk about worst case in big O notation...
Yes, and if we go alllllllllllll the way back to the original topic of the article, some "bad code" situations are provable. It is not entirely subjective.
And the chess analogy mirrors that.
Which is my point.
True like this one
A second pass on this. THIS is bad code because it is ambiguous to the reader.
8 / 2(2 + 2)There's a big internet argument as to whether it's 1 or 16, and it is bad code because there are multiple justifiable results from it, and the next person to come on the code may have a different interpretation.
but to me this seems like outlier, rather than typical example
I provided you an entire list of quantifiably "bad code" principles in my other comment. None of them are outliers, IME; I've yet to find a single contradiction to any of them in any discussion about coding practice. :)