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Why is it funny, please explain?

• jmaygarden 4y ago
  It is the error message you often get when creating a password.
  • fatcow 4y ago
    Yes I get that, didn't quite understand why this switching of error message is relevant to the code...
    • kps 4y ago
      I thought it was funny because I've seen similar complaints from linters, e.g. clang-tidy's readability-identifier-length plus readability-identifier-naming, or pylint's invalid-name. (clang-tidy at least is smart enough to exempt loop counters.)
    • isaacremuant 4y ago
      Jokes often work with subverting expectations. In this case you're surprised by a message that doesn't belong and then you remember where it comes from and likely relate it with how frustrating those ever changing rules can be. That's why the joke works.