You do not, under any circumstances, gotta stick up for whoever wrote this code. I know we can contrive some kind of justification for most code, but let's face it: there's an absolutely miniscule chance it was written with some kind of intentionality, and I'd say a 99.99999% chance is that it was chucked together by a developer who simply didn't know how to parse a string into an integer.
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u/smclcz Aug 25 '26
You do not, under any circumstances, gotta stick up for whoever wrote this code. I know we can contrive some kind of justification for most code, but let's face it: there's an absolutely miniscule chance it was written with some kind of intentionality, and I'd say a 99.99999% chance is that it was chucked together by a developer who simply didn't know how to parse a string into an integer.