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OK, I'll bite: what does De Stijl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Stijl http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Stijl) have to do with any of this?
by bshimmin 11y ago
OK, I'll bite: what does De Stijl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Stijl http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Stijl) have to do with any of this?
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- braythwayt 11y agoPerhaps the question of whether `const` in a language that doesn't do much static type checking/analysis is a question of style, and not a clear across-the-board win.
- gjm11 11y agoIt was a movement that attempted to achieve clarity and elegance by omitting the unnecessary -- and the article discusses whether omitting formally-unnecessary features like var or const makes for more clarity and elegance, or less. (Having said which, I notice that there's a reply from the person who actually wrote the article, and it doesn't say that. But that's why he should have made the reference :-).)
- braythwayt 11y agoI might have said that, but then I would be omitting the fact that not everyone finds my reproduction of the red-=blue chair comfortable. Scheme vs. Common Lisp, and all that.