For whatever it's worth, this is exactly the kind of awful that I never want in any code base that I'm working on:

<https://github.com/simonw/tools/blob/473e89edfebc27781b43443...>

At least run a pretty-printer on the code so that it can be reviewed by anything but a robot.

Part of developing a good software system is about exercising taste in vendored-in libraries and, especially, the structure around them.

P.S. I've gone to look at other chunks of Javascript and see that I was unlucky to grab this steaming pile first.