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by jspdown 840 days ago
You can always make your code self explanatory, but the cost in abstraction and maintenance results sometimes a negative ROI. In such cases, writting comments is often the best solution.

There's some excitment in identifying those, and that's where I enjoy documenting the intention of my code.

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>You can always make your code self explanatory

this code is done in this way because EU regulation #1374 regarding Maritime tracing.

this code seems inefficient and silly but is that way to get around a specific rendering issue in Opera Mini which needs to be supported because our project needs to support basically everything because it is a required governmental service.

This code is dealing with an issue in Safari that is supposed to be fixed by June 2024 release - please check if it is still an issue - test by doing the following...

Tldr: No, you can not always make your code self-explanatory.