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To me all (complex) one liners are bad : they're hard to read and they don't manage errors. I'd rather go through 5 lines of simple statements than try to deci
by jmnicolas 7y ago
To me all (complex) one liners are bad : they're hard to read and they don't manage errors.
I'd rather go through 5 lines of simple statements than try to decipher a "clever" one liner.
From the fine article :
> Open a GUI, read web page, sent it as email
You really want to do that in one line ?
- glofish 7y agosending someone a link via email is a relatively common task. why would it be undesirable to write short code that can do that?
- abrax3141 7y agoNot undesirable, just odd to make a big deal about it. Like making a big deal about Unix pipes. Yeah, when they were invented, okay. Nowadays ... old hack.