Discussion on: Towards zero bugs

[Mihail Malo]

I have a problem with the way Subtle logic errors section is phrased.

if (hidden) { show(); } else { hide(); }

is not a clearer way to write

if (!hidden) { show(); } else { hide(); }

It's different code. Did you mean that a bug was fixed, and not a refactor occured?

Same for the next one:

for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) { ... }

is not clearer than

for (let i = 0; i <= 10; i++) { ... }

It is different code.

for (let i = 0; i < 11; i++) { ... }

could be the clearer rewrite of the same code. (Is it though? What's 11?)

The bigger issue there is probably the magic number 10.
Better than any comment you could leave would be extracting it to a named constant. A constant semantically named for the reason it's used there.

These are both good code:

for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) { ... } // BAD
for (let i = 0; i <= 9; i++) { ... } // BAD

const len = 10
const lastIndex = len - 1

for (let i = 0; i < len; i++) { ... } // GOOD
for (let i = 0; i <= lastIndex; i++) { ... } // GOOD