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Hi Chris,

Thanks for this. Regarding ambiguity, you will never find me write ambiguou=
s code. I don't sabotage my own work. But the reality is that in addition t=
o writing my own code, I have to maintain existing. I find it incredibly co=
nfusing then I see a statement along the lines of "if not something" - have=
 to study the code in detail to see what it is testing.

I could show more examples of what I find confusing in existing code, but I=
 don't intent to troll. I'm just trying to understand the language as it is=
. I will see how it goes.

Pete