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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I do think the unnumbered variant of such anonymous parameters is useful, if you've got a team of devs that knows not to misuse them.

In particular, folks who are unexperienced will gladly make massive multi-line transformations, all in one step, and then continue blathering on about it or similar, as if everyone knew what they were talking about and there was no potential for ambiguity.

This is also particularly annoying, because you rarely read code top-to-bottom. Ideally, you should be able to jump into the middle of any code and start reading, without having to figure out what the regional abbreviations or it mean.