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colonelpopcorn on March 8, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: -2000 Lines of Code

Except it's not easy to follow. Why does kind 15 return a parsed object of kind 5? That's not counting the complexity of each function called, either.

johncolanduoni on March 8, 2021 | [–]

I think they were using the numbers as stand-ins for what would be in reality names be descriptive names (foo, bar, etc.).

gurkendoktor on March 8, 2021 | [–]

Ouch, sorry for the typo. But I'll double down on this: The fact that the typo is so obvious underlines that the structure is easy to review :)

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