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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9480993" data-attributes="member: 93670">[Spoiler="Spaghetti code"][URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_code[/URL]Spaghetti code is a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pejorative" target="_blank">pejorative</a> phrase for difficult-to-<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_maintenance" target="_blank">maintain</a> and unstructured <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer" target="_blank">computer</a> <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_code" target="_blank">source code</a>. Code being developed with poor structure can be due to any of several factors, such as volatile project requirements, lack of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_style" target="_blank">programming style</a> rules, and <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineer" target="_blank">software engineers</a> with insufficient ability or experience.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_code#cite_note-Markus4-1" target="_blank">[1]</a><h2>Meaning</h2><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spaghetti_code&action=edit&section=1" target="_blank">edit</a>Code that overuses <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goto" target="_blank">GOTO</a> statements rather than <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_programming" target="_blank">structured programming</a> constructs, resulting in convoluted and unmaintainable programs, is often called spaghetti code.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_code#cite_note-Cram5-2" target="_blank">[2]</a> Such code has a complex and tangled <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_structure" target="_blank">control structure</a>, resulting in a program flow that is conceptually like a <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti#Serving" target="_blank">bowl of spaghetti</a>, twisted and tangled.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_code#cite_note-3" target="_blank">[3]</a>In a 1980 publication by the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institute_of_Standards_and_Technology" target="_blank">United States National Bureau of Standards</a>, the phrase spaghetti program was used to describe older programs having "fragmented and scattered files".<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_code#cite_note-4" target="_blank">[4]</a>Spaghetti code can also describe an <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern" target="_blank">anti-pattern</a> in which <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming" target="_blank">object-oriented code</a> is written in a procedural style, such as by creating classes whose methods are overly long and messy, or forsaking object-oriented concepts like <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymorphism_(computer_science)" target="_blank">polymorphism</a>.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_code#cite_note-Moha10-5" target="_blank">[5]</a> The presence of this form of spaghetti code can significantly reduce the comprehensibility of a system.<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_code#cite_note-Abbes11-6" target="_blank">[6]</a>[/Spoiler]Your entire defense of the obviously problematic grapple drag mechanic rests on adding extra mechanical hooks to dragging the grappled target that do not exist in the RAW.  You are literally declaring that it's ok while trying to patch the problem with a secondary solution hooking into the RAW grapple drag rather than admitting that the grapple drag RAW itself is badly written as printed and is the section that requires an errata.You are creating and inserting implied motives and competency where none was assigned.  The closest to that is where I literally quoted with link to wotc's own preview and noted that wotc thought that was ok to design as well as hype.  If wotc did not feel that was ok, it wouldn't have been written.</blockquote>

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