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stereobooster • Edited

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
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Jason C. McDonald • Edited

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. :)