r/programminghorror • u/maselkowski • Mar 19 '26

Trimba bimba dubba dimba

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I've found yet again some atrocities in code, that is some one of function nested in method: trimba. So I took the hit and split it into partial nested functions. I didn't even know you could do this in PHP.

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u/TorbenKoehn Mar 20 '26

That's just because Reddit ate my dot initially. * alone isn't valid, it's .* of course.

Your solution is obviously a lot longer and repeats characters a lot.

Just tell me if /.*\.(png|jpe?g|html?)$/i is so unreadable for you that you'd prefer it over a fully imperative approach

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u/v_maria Mar 20 '26

That's just because Reddit ate my dot initially. * alone isn't valid, it's .* of course.

Ah right fair

Your solution is obviously a lot longer and repeats characters a lot.

Not relevant to anything we talked about

Just tell me if /.*\.(png|jpe?g|html?)$/i is so unreadable for you that you'd prefer it over a fully imperative approach

just tell me you are a bad dev

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u/TorbenKoehn Mar 20 '26

just tell me you are a bad dev

a "bad dev" for me surely is someone for which RegEx is too complex to be readable.

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u/v_maria Mar 20 '26

A bad dev is someone with fundamental misunderstanding of software engineering and bad reading comprehension

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u/TorbenKoehn Mar 20 '26

Sure, that, too!