Re:Kernighan's Law: You are not smart enough to debug it
by laumars on Monday February 17, 2020 @11:13AM
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> title would be less vague as
True but that's too many characters for HN's title field. Which might be why it was submitted with editorialised version.
> /s/it/your cleverest code
massive nitpick but you should be suffixing rather than prefixing the regex with a slash:
s/it/your cleverest code/
As I said, this is a massive nitpick; literally the only reason I pointed this out was because the submission was about debugging code and I liked the irony of debugging someone's posted about debugging code :)
(there is another law somewhere about people who nitpick are prone to making mistakes in their corrections thus getting nitpicked themselves -- I'm hoping I'm not exception hehe)
True but that's too many characters for HN's title field. Which might be why it was submitted with editorialised version.
> /s/it/your cleverest code
massive nitpick but you should be suffixing rather than prefixing the regex with a slash:
As I said, this is a massive nitpick; literally the only reason I pointed this out was because the submission was about debugging code and I liked the irony of debugging someone's posted about debugging code :)(there is another law somewhere about people who nitpick are prone to making mistakes in their corrections thus getting nitpicked themselves -- I'm hoping I'm not exception hehe)