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title: 'When I''m converting data into a different structure, one thing I like to do is annotate how the structure looks at each point of the process'
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created_at: 2021-04-06T16:07:49+00:00
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I developed this habit when I was building a lot of data conversion scripts in Python, but it's 100% applicable in PHP as well.