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Re:Practical Go: Real-world advice for writing maintainable ... by ori_b on Thursday February 21, 2019 @07:50PM (#19222124)
Readability is a problem -- long variable names are harder to skim, and rapidly begin to blur together for me.
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Re:Practical Go: Real-world advice for writing maintainable ... by bdamm on Thursday February 21, 2019 @10:34PM (#19222891)
Agreed. Step through the code in a debugger if you really want to understand what it's doing. Even unreproducible problems with production code can succumb to raw understanding gained from stepped test cases.
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