Don't do:
...
Do this:
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i second that!
i'm working on a very old script which has, for example, 130
lines of nested if-else blocks, and it goes down 6 levels. as if this wasn't complicated enough, it uses global
variables.
always imagine yourself sitting in front of your code six
months later trying to understand what it does. having to scroll
up and down the whole time is exhausting.
there's the rule
of 24 lines for a subroutine as a maximum. originally
because that's the standard terminal height. some
might say, nowadays you have big screens and big windows,
but that dosn't help much, because then still
your
eyes have to move up and down, so that 24-rule
(with exceptions of course) is still a good rule.