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Have you every come across confusing if statements with complex conditionals such as this? I bet you did!
// please kill me 🤯
if (!(($this->shipping_country == "GB" || (strcmp($this-status, "Valid") !== 0)) {
To me, this is completely unreadable.
In the video below I show how I deal with this situation. Spoiler: add some tests around it and break the conditionals apart.
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