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[–] auf@lemmy.ml 92 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Thief way is actually the best among all of these imo, in terms of readability and efficiency.

[–] snowe@programming.dev 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

They’re setting a variable to a function. Just use the original function. All thief does is obfuscate for literally no gain except character count.

[–] platypode@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I presumed it to be a standin for just directly using Math.max, since there's no nice way to show that in a valid code snippet

[–] demonen@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's my reading as well.

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