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Honestly - even arbitrary variable names are more to my liking than positional references. LOC tends to be an extremely unstable thing to reference and would m
by munk-a 2y ago
Honestly - even arbitrary variable names are more to my liking than positional references. LOC tends to be an extremely unstable thing to reference and would make refactoring a royal pain.
- tomsmeding 2y agoThey argue that this is not a problem because the IDE automatically renumbers cell references. Yes, we definitely need more textual (yes, SPL is textual IMO) languages that cannot be sensibly edited without the official IDE. (I'll make an exception for actually visual programming languages, because we don't have a good interoperable format for those.)