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@Godisalie because they're a scientist, that's all about the "get'er done" attitude
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@tisaconundrum Cough, Chemist here, cough.^^ Non the less what benefits do they gain from that atrocity?
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psudo3408y@Godisalie The language let them do it, so it must be alright 😉
But my guess is that they wanted to use it as a lightweight data object and just kinda passed it around whenever they needed to return/operate on more than 1 thing.
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