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Honestly I really don't get people who are obsessed with this. Static vs dynamic? That matters A LOT! Error handling style? Very important. Expression based vs
by rowanG077 3y ago
Honestly I really don't get people who are obsessed with this. Static vs dynamic? That matters A LOT! Error handling style? Very important. Expression based vs statement based? Now you are talking.
but whether a type is before or after the name of a variable? Come one man.,,
- benhoyt 3y agoAre people "obsessed" with this? As the OP, I'm not. I agree with you that static vs dynamic typing and the other issues you mentioned are more important than this, but that doesn't make smaller details not worth discussing. The little details matter in language design, for code readability, cohesiveness, and so on.
- rowanG077 3y agoThen I got the wrong impression. I didn't expect someone to write a article about something they don't really care about.
- benhoyt 3y agoThere's a big area between "obsessed with" and "don't really care about"! I clearly care about it and think it's interesting and important, hence writing the article, but I have better things to be obsessed with. I don't think painting things in extreme terms like that is particularly helpful.
- simon_o 3y agoYour "it's just a matter of taste" just shows a lack of research. The decision has a lot of important second-order effects, and a lot of people are heavily invested in denying that because they are more familiar with "Type name".