The C++ tadpole operators explained

It depends. I find stuff worse than tadpole operators all the time, and about as opaque.

There's plenty of production code only ever read by the person who wrote/maintains it.

It makes it more fun then ;)

Or the ??!??! operator [1]

    !ErrorHasOccured() ??!??! HandleError();

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7825055/what-does-the-c-o...

This is a follow up post (with additional context) to the post from yesterday.

Reminds me one of the comments on this article, so not the one you are linking to: Mostly it demonstrated that people would rather post their own comments than read other people's comments.