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adamhepner
2539 days ago
Unrelated, but why on earth is "iNdEx" used almost a million times? Is there a joke that I'm missing at play here?
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tcard
2539 days ago
It seems it's generated by the protoc compiler. E. g.
https://github.com/weaveworks/common/blob/80ff0769bb38e575cd...
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NikkiA
2539 days ago
It's funny but this reminds me that my first 'wtf C, you are dumb' moment was trying to use a variable name 'index' in some code in 1989, and getting completely incomprehensible errors in return.
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