the function never gets called, but the running code reads the source code of this function to extract important constants, and if you delete the function, everything breaks :)
we don’t use this without first writing proper unit tests for our changes, integrating them with the regression tests, and thoroughly documenting our changes for the next developer that has to work on this
And what’s beautiful is that the one right under has a comment “we don’t use thi…”
This code looks like so much fun to debug…
There’s one I found today that just reads “this is a fucking abortion”
I don’t remember doing it, but it was almost certainly me.
i like to imagine it says
Load bearing code
I’m an optimist, and it’s technically possible
Ok cool now write some unit tests for a 13,000 line function
🙃
I would legit love to refactor that bad boy and get >95% code coverage. Put me in, coach!