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Indeed, I often use the term "magic" to describe something that happens for very arbitrary reasons or through an extremely complex and counter intuitive set of
by projektir 10y ago
Indeed, I often use the term "magic" to describe something that happens for very arbitrary reasons or through an extremely complex and counter intuitive set of steps. I.e., code that uses gotos, hard-to-understand reflection, or code/language that has a large amount of esoteric assumptions and rules in the background.
- allendoerfer 10y agoI call implicitly executing code magic. It is not like I could not comprehend it, but I should not have to, it should be obvious. I use the word to describe bad interfaces, giving me this feeling of little control. Big fan of The Zen of Python.