Code Coffin

Noun · Slang & Abbreviations

Definitions

  1. A darkly funny term for a place where old code is buried but still present, usually because nobody has fully deleted it. In engineering slang, a code coffin suggests dead logic that still haunts the repository.

    In plain English: A place where old or dead code is kept instead of fully removed.

    Example: "They moved the abandoned import path into a code coffin directory while waiting for legal signoff to delete the last archived data format that depended on it."

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