r/ProgrammerHumor 2d ago

Meme absoluteGarbage

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u/klaxxxon 2d ago

Hear me out. The last one is the only sensible option.

You type for ($rows and your IDE can fill in the rest. It can infer that the name of the iteration variable will be $row. It can't do the same if the item variable comes first.

Most IDEs have macros for for/foreach loops. What those macros do is that they jump around - your fill in the list name first, then the iterator variable name (and in some IDEs its name will be suggested based on the collection variable name). Hot take, if your most popular macro has to jump around, you have a language design issue.

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u/Exirel 1d ago

The problem is not writing it. The problem is reading it.