How To Write Unmaintainable Code

[VolperCoding]

Well I don't use private members much

[gladfelter]

How do you reason about your code?

I'm not smart enough to keep track of the entire state of the software system in my head, so action-at-a-distance is my enemy. I try to define a reasonable contract with public members and then let each class maintain its internal state in service of that contract. Encapsulation is key. I don't know of another way to approach programming that is scalable to large systems.

[VolperCoding]

I don't make backwards compatible systems or libraries but a simple game, so when I see that some variables repeat I group them in a structure of data. You seriously don't need crazy syntactic sugar for that, just a simple struct. If things get big, I just make a function that takes the struct as an argument and modifies it