Code Smell 06 - Too Clever Programmer

Code difficult to read, tricky with names without semantic. Sometimes using language's accidental complexity.

Problems

• Readability

• Maintainability

• Code Quality

• Premature Optimization

Solutions

• Refactor the code

• Use better names

Examples

• Optimized loops

Exceptions

• Code that must be optimized for low level operations.

Sample Code

Wrong

Right

Detection

Automatic detection is possible in some languages related to complexity, bad names, post increment variables.

Relations

Code Smell 02 - Constants and Magic Numbers

Maxi Contieri ・ Oct 21 '20 ・ 1 min read

#beginners #codenewbie #100daysofcode #codequality

Also Known as

• Obfuscator

More info

Tags

• Declarative

Credits

Photo by NeONBRAND on Unsplash

Comments

[Tayyab Talha]

There is no difference between wrong and right code.

[Ben Coleman]

Refresh the page. This appears to be a bug in (at least) the Android DEV app.

[Tayyab Talha]

Yep you are right

[Maxi Contieri]

From a machine point of view it isn't. The semantic parsing trees are equivalent

[Andrej Rypo]

The code in the "wrong" example is not being clever at all. It's just obfuscated. That kind is typically written by juniors trying to look smart.
I'd swap the "A.K.A." section with the headline.

[Mohcin Bounouara]

In the point.