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Ever wanted to provide your arguments to a function as a comment?

https://gist.github.com/RikudouSage/18defbf1746322a289ae78b2980d0115

#php #cursed #wtf #programming @php

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[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 19 points 4 days ago

the function reads the comment added after the function is called using a backtrace and uses them as arguments

How marvelously creative. What an abomination.

[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 13 points 4 days ago

No, my eyes! Forever unclean!

[–] dan@upvote.au 10 points 4 days ago

What a terrible day to have eyes

[–] TomasEkeli@programming.dev 8 points 4 days ago

no. never wanted that.

[–] zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.dev 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This reminds me of a trick to get multiline strings in javascript before they where formally introduced. If you coerce a function in to a string you get the source code for that function, comments and all. This meant that you could write a function with multiline comments and then pick out the middle part. Haven't tested it so it's probably sligthly wrong but it was something like:

var multiLine = ('' + function () {/*
line 1
line 2
*/});
multiLine = multiLine.substring(16, multiLine.length-4);
[–] michael@mstdn.thms.uk 4 points 4 days ago
[–] python@programming.dev 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

huh, that does look kinda clean though

[–] chrastecky@phpc.social 5 points 4 days ago

@python I mean, it's already an abomination, I can at least write a clean code.

[–] CubbyTustard@reddthat.com 2 points 3 days ago