Well, there are no coding practices at all to speak of, so what does working for whomever matter, vs. what we see? A good practice starts by putting a space after every comma, if you intend not to annoy to hell anyone trying to read your code.

I can only encourage everyone to keep using it, since it "works" as you say. Who cares if it might not work correctly. For the kind of number of operations we're dealing with, it's crucial that some bit flipping or not handling input validation doesn't result in a disaster, or useless work.