Re: poll ideas quest 2016 (bad code line)

When you see a bad/stupid line of code in someone else's code, what are you most likely to do?

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Re^2: poll ideas quest 2016 (bad code line) by choroba (Cardinal) on Jan 28, 2016 at 23:01 UTC
It depends on where it happens: at work, on GitHub, in a CPAN module, in the script I discovered after my server was hacked... ($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-\|\|-\|5+lengthSq)`"S\|oS2"`map{chr \|+ord }map{substrSq`S_+\|`\|}3E\|-\|`7**2-3:)=~y+S\|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a, [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: poll ideas quest 2016 (bad code line) by chacham (Prior) on Jan 29, 2016 at 15:30 UTC
Good point. It also may likely depends on the coder as well. Known or unknown. Friends, coworker, boss, et al. Added an "it depends" option.	[reply]