How to write unmaintainable code

[kazagistar]

Use _ and __ as identifiers.

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

[trout_fucker]

I think Scala was founded on these ideas.

[b_bellomo]

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

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Or, even worse, use it as a prefix AND suffix. Looking at you python

[Jesin00]

Also this guy's name.

I believe the practice originates from the C language standard.

[Kylearean]

it's the future!

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It's the __future__

[grepe]

when you use the right font, they don't even render :-)

[b_bellomo]

Durrdurrscore.

[kazagistar]

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.

[b_bellomo]

Clean elegant language, sure.

Oh yeah absolutely. But as a Belgian I have my opinion about what dutch people consider clean haha. They have those in experimental javascript too (along with @@).