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Comment by yk

2 months ago

Pull left-pad as dependency presumably.

Which then, inexplicably, pulls left-justify as a recursive dependency.

  • The dependency cycle is actually the functional mechanism of the code, because they subvert the dedup mechanism in the package manager using a random generation trick. Each recursive copy of the dependencies takes up a little bit more space, which ultimately gets converted to the spaces inserted into the original datum; the caller is expected to adjust the cache settings to signal the desired amount. That's also why if you're using left-justify to process strings, Yarn is recommended for best compatibility. /joke

    • This is so beautifully cursed, reusing the module loader state as your local state. We could have the familiar Python syntax of

      `from <key> import <value>`

      And a custom import hook eating the error. To get value(s) for a given key, naturally we'd scan the module loader cache. Elegant.