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		roel_v on June 15, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lessons learned from rewriting code Maybe there once was a breakpoint at the return false, or an assert, and it was just left like this in case the breakpoint is needed again.

indentit on June 15, 2019 [–]

Modern debuggers generally support conditional breakpoints, but they often incur a high performance penalty, so this reasoning makes sense to me.

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