Earlier this year a colleague was tasked with modifying an application that defined a very large object (i.e., containing 20+ properties). The troubling part was that the object was entirely defined twice, first in an if-block, then in an else-block, all 20+ properties spelled out in each. That made the differences between the definitions difficult to detect just by scanning.
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