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0 pointsTylerE6y ago0 comments

Because giant codebase that would take effort++++ to do so for no perceived gain, with possible addition of new bugs.

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mywittyname6y ago· 3 in thread

> effort++++

effort += 1 + 1

Ported to Python3 for you.

Clearly c got it wrong. The number of + should have been increment so e->e + 1 should be e+ e+->e+ +1 should be e++ ...

Correction:

  effort = (effort := effort + 1) + 1

Executable pseudocode!

That's how we get decades old cobol codebases that nobody understands.

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