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You could say that about anything, though. Why use punctuation and capitalization when typing forum comments? Its just syntax after all.
by adossi 7y ago
You could say that about anything, though. Why use punctuation and capitalization when typing forum comments? Its just syntax after all.
- awinder 7y agoWhy use many word when few word do trick
- mrmonkeyman 7y agoYeh y ndeed
- ben509 7y agoBecause you don't know if they've done the trick. That's why natural language is padded with extra words to add context and help rule out misunderstandings. The grammatical rules of agreement are one mechanism to do this. And you can see the phenomenon of over-abbreviation by reading a few debates on twitter and repeatedly seeing, "how can you not understand what I tweeted?!"
- gooseserbus 7y agoFYI you're replying to a joke from The Office (US) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K-L9uhsBLM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K-L9uhsBLM
- TeMPOraL 7y agoNo, that's a completely invalid objection. Punctuation in natural languages isn't just aesthetic, it changes meaning.
- firethief 7y agoThat's a mostly invalid counter-objection. Technically true, but with context its usually recoverable.
- rcfox 7y agoPunctuation, or lack of it, can change the meaning in programming languages too. https://medium.freecodecamp.org/codebyte-why-are-explicit-semicolons-important-in-javascript-49550bea0b82 https://medium.freecodecamp.org/codebyte-why-are-explicit-se...
- anoncake 7y agoYeah, but no one would remove punctuation from a program because they think it looks nicer. > Javascript developers Oh, of course.
- andrewprock 7y agoDon't forget gofmt.
- JoBrad 7y agoI remove semicolons from JS b/c I feel like they are a bit of a hack. Except where it's required by the language (for loops, which are becoming less used quite rapidly), your code generally shouldn't be so complex as to require semicolons for readability. Having said that, I've been introducing a lot more colons, since I use TypeScript.
- anoncake 7y agoI was referring to punctuation that is, in some way, actually necessary. No one ends their lines with semicolons in python although it's valid. The rules when the interpreter will "insert" them are obvious. Not so in Javascript.