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If 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.
by conartist6 11mo ago
If 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.