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It's off the rails.
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Frist? Sorry Frist? Sorry? Frist? Go ahead
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Isn't the whole point of codes that they can't be understood?
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Ruby: Because sometimes Perl is just too readable.
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There's an extra
;in there which is a mistake. The important thing to know here is that the!and?are meaningless and part of the actual method names. The only two symbols that do anything in there are:which means that the next word is a symbol, and&which turns the symbol into a proc / method reference.!is idiomatic for a method which is destructive on its receiver, and?means a boolean method. Neither of them are technically required though.Admin
It's like music or poetry, with a nice refrain and there's such a thought-provoking moment when it comes full circle.
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Looks like a git merge gone wrong to me. Two developers saw the bug at a similar time - the first thought to use the “merge” function to combine the transfer groups, the other thought to do it manually.
No doubt the ever-helpful IDE “helped” with the conflict resolution by suggesting “why not keep both?”