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by hasslblad 5387 days ago
Sorry, I should have been clearer. I was getting flashbacks to when I saw a similar problem (except in a for each loop), that's what set the alarm bells ringing in my head.

When I see nasty code like that, I tend to stop parsing it fully and sniff out the intent. I think it's a form of bad code blindness (like banner ad blindness) my brain is protecting me from all the bad code I've seen. If I fully parsed all the really bad code properly I’d become a dribbling wreck. :) So I tend to look at it at a higher level instead to stay sane.