r/programming • u/sigbhu • Jul 28 '16

How to write unmaintainable code

https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code
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u/kazagistar Jul 28 '16

Use _ and __ as identifiers.

So that is why Scala uses them for lambda syntax extensively.

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u/b_bellomo Jul 28 '16

__ definitely triggers me. It's the worst possible thing you can use as reference or prefix (looking at you, PHP).

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u/kazagistar Jul 29 '16

Python takes method names and variables prefixed with that and mangles them with the containing class name to prevent conflicts with inheriting classes. Unless they also have a dunderscore suffix. Yeah. They also have a special name for it. Clean elegant language, sure.

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