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That's not entirely true. Ideally, there would be a follow up with a reflection API. Also, comments are syntax and they're mostly meaningless. By your reasonin
by gaigalas 11mo ago
That's not entirely true. Ideally, there would be a follow up with a reflection API.
Also, comments are syntax and they're mostly meaningless. By your reasoning, programming languages should have no comments.
So, it's not really a qualitative issue (presence of meaningless syntax) but a quantitative one (presence of lots of parsing complexity).
- conartist6 11mo agoIf you say that whatever data is put there doesn't matter at all, the one thing you definitely cannot ever do later is give it meaning.
- gaigalas 11mo agoUnless I say it's meaning is to be optionally reflected upon during runtime! Look, I understand the purism and mostly, I agree. But this is not a clean slate language, it will never be perfect and it's going to become more and more idiosyncratic as times go by.
- conartist6 11mo agoI don't see how it's optional. Comments are a kind of freedom in code. You're completely free to use them precisely because (in a plain execution environment) they cannot influence the result of evaluation If comments /can/ change the result of evaluation then you simply are not (completely) free to use them. (And yes I know that this is a simplification in JS where you can already get the source code of a function with toString... Ugh)
- gaigalas 11mo agoMakes sense. I'm excited for your solution, despite not having seen it. If you can solve that, it would be awesome.