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The problem is "mostly solved" by adding a warning to a single compiler? Sure, there are plenty of ways to mitigate the problem. That's not the point. The poin
by ericlippert 7y ago
The problem is "mostly solved" by adding a warning to a single compiler?
Sure, there are plenty of ways to mitigate the problem. That's not the point. The point is that the problem should not have arisen in the first place to require ongoing mitigation fifty years later!
- carterehsmith 7y agoWhat are you going to do about it? a) just use parenthesis like everyone else, or b) turn the time back to 50 years ago and change that? Seriously, the article was just a rant. Yeah, people 50 years ago did something wrong. So what.
- ericlippert 7y agoMy blog is about the design and implementation of programming languages; by understanding the causes of past mistakes we can learn to recognize them again today. The best mistakes to learn from are other people's!
- egdod 7y agoSo don’t make that kind of mistake going forward.