alt Hacker NewsWhat exactly is complex or "super subtle" about this? It's the textbook example from the 1st chapter in the tutorial or something?
What exactly is complex or "super subtle" about this? It's the textbook example from the 1st chapter in the tutorial or something?
It's just very non-obvious what the code does when you're skimming it.
Especially in a dynamic language like Perl, you wouldn't know that you're passing down an integer instead of a function until the code blows up in a completely unrelated function.