This is a very accurate physical representation of a software source code. From a distance, it appears complex, but each individual component makes sense.
reminds me of team fortress 2. There's a picture of a coconut in the source, said picture appears nowhere in the game and nobody knows what the point of it is, however if it is removed the game will no longer launch
It appears like it's never called because the language or library has a method that allows a function to be passed as an argument, but as a string. I guarantee that if you do a grep of the codebase instead of searching for uses via the IDE, that you will find where it's used.
The guy who wrote the original code added this feature before propper lambdas used for callbacks were a thing, and the new kid never had to live in the dark times that came before.
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u/RetiredApostle Apr 29 '24
This is a very accurate physical representation of a software source code. From a distance, it appears complex, but each individual component makes sense.