Re: software with surprising depths of superficiality

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On Thursday, August 28, 2003 4:52 PM, David Cantrell
<david@xxxxxxxx.xxx.xx> wrote:
> Are deeply nested data structures that naughty?  With sensible keys I
> find them easy to use, even if you do things like ...
>
> $foop->{boing}->{$foop->{wibbles}->{$wibble}}
>

I had a colleague who insisted on doing this:

$foop->{boing}->{$foop->{wibbles}->{$wibble}}{look} = 1;
$foop->{boing}->{$foop->{wibbles}->{$wibble}}{at} = 1;
$foop->{boing}->{$foop->{wibbles}->{$wibble}}{all} = 1;
$foop->{boing}->{$foop->{wibbles}->{$wibble}}{this} = 1;
$foop->{boing}->{$foop->{wibbles}->{$wibble}}{copy} = 1;
$foop->{boing}->{$foop->{wibbles}->{$wibble}}{and} = 1;
$foop->{boing}->{$foop->{wibbles}->{$wibble}}{pasting} = 1;

To make it even harder to read he'd use lines well over 100 characters wide.

Gavin.

• David Cantrell 21:52 on 28 Aug 2003
  • Gavin Estey 22:24 on 28 Aug 2003

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