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> this means it is written in a top down style where every reference is defined somewhere above the usage. It then naturally falls out that programs can be easi
by cxr 2y ago
> this means it is written in a top down style where every reference is defined somewhere above the usage. It then naturally falls out that programs can be easily read bottom to top
So not top-down[1] then, but the opposite.
1. <https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/programming/write-code-top-down.html https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/programming/write-code-top-...>
- norir 2y agoRegardless of semantics, I mean that a compiler will read the code from the top to the bottom and when it encounters a reference, it either must have already been defined or it doesn't exist and the compiler should error out. This is orthogonal to top down in the way that your link suggests.
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