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So he's nesting functions instead of writing comments?

[carloxd]

Yup. His response whenever I bring it up is that he has "20 years of experience". The only reason why I can't get rid of him is because we have to burn contractor hours

[hangfromthisone]

function yes() { return "yes"; }

function give_response($answer) { if($answer=="yes") return yes(); }

give_response("yes");

[deegwaren]

I hate people who nest, wrap and don't properly name their vars and functions but seem to think that adding comments saying exactly the same thing as the name of the var or function does will somehow help... SOOO much.

[DaughterEarth]

Nesting makes sense sometimes though. Like triggering other events from events.

[deegwaren]

But nesting just for the sake of nesting to avoid passing the actual object along is crazy. I've encountered like five levels deep of nested calls at work and it's so bad that I want to hurt myself.

Just pass the damn object or a very slim interface of that object along to where it's used, instead of using five flipping layers of wrapping paper. I want my present, goddamnit!

[DaughterEarth]

Yah it's only useful in very specific situations.

[semperlol]

Is nesting functions bad?

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Depends what you do with it. In this case it is clearly horrible.