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"If you know what is missing, and you know where it is missing, why not add it back yourself? You useless piece of crap!” -- I only code occasionally, but would
by blackhaz 6y ago
"If you know what is missing, and you know where it is missing, why not add it back yourself? You useless piece of crap!” -- I only code occasionally, but wouldn't this effectively lower the overall skill in the profession and, also, potentially introduce bugs? Thinking about Bruce Almighty style "yes to all" fixes here.
- afandian 6y agoThe typo may not be limited to a semicolon. Introducing one automatically might actually introduce unintended changes (like the huge number of bugs that arise from blockless if statements in C syntax).
- projektfu 6y agoDefinitely should read the Jargon file entry for DWIM. More and more, though, there’s such magic being performed by complete and libraries that you sometimes want DAIS.