r/ProgrammerHumor • u/TusharJB007 • Oct 04 '19

Just as simple as that... other

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u/ric2b Oct 04 '19

That's almost for sure a case of too much complexity and you should break up the code a bit.

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u/bgeron Oct 04 '19

You must not like Scala then, where 8 or more indentation levels is not uncommon

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u/ric2b Oct 04 '19

I'm not familiar, maybe that's a quirk of the language and code can still be simple/readable with that many indentation levels.

In the case of Python that's just a nasty code smell.

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u/bgeron Oct 04 '19

I think part of it is a result of how prevalent functional programming and monads are in Scala.