pyramid of doom

noun

The presence of many levels of nested indentation in source code, making it difficult for a person to read.

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nounpyramid of doom (plural pyramids of doom)

plural pyramids of doom

  1. informalcomputingThe presence of many levels of nested indentation in source code, making it difficult for a person to read.

    It turns out that one way we can look at Bind is as a recipe against the pyramid of doom.

    2022, Enrico Buonanno, Functional Programming in C#, Second edition, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN
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