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It's not hard to read if you already know what it does. As it stands, it's a barrier to learning and a detriment to consistency in style.
by Retra 11y ago
It's not hard to read if you already know what it does. As it stands, it's a barrier to learning and a detriment to consistency in style.
- abecedarius 11y agoThat's a general argument against any added feature. The question is, is it useful enough? This particular feature seems valuable and cheap: I write code all the time that would be cleaner with it, and the meaning is natural enough that I independently invented essentially the same syntax years ago as a pair of Lisp macros (dealing in a-lists instead of hashtables).
- _greim_ 11y ago> As it stands, it's a barrier to learning and a detriment to consistency in style. Not true. It's actually super-easy to learn and meshes well with existing variable declaration styles.
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- Retra 11y agoI'm not sure why you spent two lines of text to say "I disagree."