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Welcome to the wonderful world of code obfuscation (imgur.com)
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Yes, someone actually did this and I found it running on our server

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[โ€“] MagicShel@programming.dev 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd make it a named function for clarity and testability and proceed to give zero shits how it is implemented. I would unironically write this code if it worked, but I wouldn't inline it to reduce the cognitive load of reading it.

[โ€“] Cosmicomical@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

This, and maybe a couple of unit tests