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TylerE
on April 20, 2020
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Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2
Because giant codebase that would take effort++++ to do so for no perceived gain, with possible addition of new bugs.
mywittyname
on April 20, 2020
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> effort++++
effort += 1 + 1
Ported to Python3 for you.
nxpnsv
on April 21, 2020
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Clearly c got it wrong. The number of + should have been increment so e->e + 1 should be e+ e+->e+ +1 should be e++ ...
moonchild
on April 21, 2020
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Correction:
effort = (effort := effort + 1) + 1
pansa2
on April 21, 2020
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Executable pseudocode!
imtringued
on April 21, 2020
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That's how we get decades old cobol codebases that nobody understands.
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