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I redid the meme with what hurts me (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by MashedTech@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19849935

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[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Anything that's not an integer or a range doesn't belong inside []. Much more readable to use zip, map, filter, etc. And more powerful.

EDIT: that was meant for indexing lists. Strings inside [] for indexing ducts are fine.