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For all intents and purposes this is one of many typo classes that just happens to have a cute "antidote", and which also has been all but rendered pointless by
by huhtenberg 8y ago
For all intents and purposes this is one of many typo classes that just happens to have a cute "antidote", and which also has been all but rendered pointless by the existence of respective compiler warnings.
I've seen weirder stuff get through the reviews and compile cleanly, something like "f,()". Typos happen, but (a) it's not a good enough reason to make the code less readable (b) if the code is prone to this sort of errors, just pay closer attention to them during the review phase. Hedging against a single exotic type of mistake that virtually never happens at the expense of code readability is unacceptable.
- macintux 8y agoI strongly disagree that this impacts code readability, except perhaps for a beginner, but stretching a beginner’s mind a bit with a concept that’s not exactly a major challenge to understand hardly seems like a crime against humanity.