By matsuzine -


Ok, so last night I was writing some code and I started to drift off. When I woke up in the morning, I found the following oddness in my comments for one of my methods...

What's funny to me about this is that there are no wizards or warlocks in this code. In fact, this is a pretty mundane plugin manager. I probably should have been sleeping instead of trying to hack out those last few lines of code...

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