Christmas Tree Code

Definitions

1. A joking term for code with so much indentation, nesting, branching, or visual clutter that it resembles the layered shape of a Christmas tree. It is usually criticism of overly nested control flow or unreadable structure.

   In plain English: Code with so much nesting and indentation that it is visually hard to follow.

   Example: "That parser became Christmas tree code after five levels of nested conditionals and exception handling."

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