Self-Documenting Code Taken to Absurd Extremes with Function Name as Comment

Description

A meme with large bold text at the top reading 'when you love writing code but you hate writing comments' followed by a dark code editor screenshot showing a Python function definition with an absurdly long name: 'def You_Can_Call_Your_Functions_Really_Long_Names_if_You_Want_To_Now_Because_Python_Does_Not_Enforce_Length_Limits_On_Function_Names_and_also_Classes_Either_plus_its_easy_to_type_because_text_editors_these_days_have_a_feature_called_autocomplete_so_you_can_just_type_the_first_letters_of_the_name_and_then_press_down_once_or_twice_and_hit_tab():'. The function name itself IS the documentation, taken to a comically extreme level. The code uses Python's def keyword with snake_case naming

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Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick This is what happens when someone takes 'code should be self-documenting' literally and the code gets a restraining order

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

This is what happens when someone takes 'code should be self-documenting' literally and the code gets a restraining order
@AmindaEU 7mo

*is just pondering running off walls while screaming about a project having no documentation and how would anyone get anything done if key person just died*
1. @AmindaEU 7mo
  
  if I died, everything I have ever touched would probably die with me, since no one ever reads the documentation I write or claims to have been unaware of it
  
  @AmindaEU 7mo
  
  am I hangry? Maybe I should try eating in addition to overdosing coffee in case it would help either headache or anger
2. @Artkash 7mo
  
  Clearly, the function's name makes it self-explanatory, containing all possible intricacies it has. If you need documentation for your code to be understood, you just didn't use enough functions or named them inappropriately! /sarcasm
  
  @azizhakberdiev 7mo
  
  technically doc comments are just for ide code suggestions to work /s
  
  @azizhakberdiev 7mo
  
  (to be fair I'm more motivated to write doc just for this than anything else)
@deerspangle 7mo

PEP8 line length limit would like to know your location
@Daonifur 7mo

Me whenever the job pays by lines of code or letters/words added rather than some other useful metric
@ulanov_show 7mo

lgtm
@Artkash 7mo

All my functions' names are: * Starting with a letter * Containing at least 8 characters * Containing at least 1 uppercase letter * Containing at least 1 digit * Containing at least 1 full English sentence with correct grammar and punctuation
1. @Broken_Cloud_1 7mo
  
  My function names are signatures🤓☝️
@sysoevyarik 7mo

hehehe
1. Deleted Account 7mo
  
  wtf?
  
  @sysoevyarik 7mo
  
  just some function/variable names from metal/vulkan/opengl (metal one is probably just crappy generated bindings but still cursed)
  
  Deleted Account 7mo
  
  yes exact my naming variables in my cpp codes :D
@NaNmber 7mo

srp fears him
@FunnyGuyU 7mo

Just force developers to maintain their code. Indefinitely. Till death.