voxpoplar wrote at April 9, 2018, 11:10 PM

ok but he suggests all comments should be # when # could be used as a perfectly good operator to get the length of something

Dogmantra wrote at April 9, 2018, 11:22 PM

it's ok because all comments should be written in the format xXx_comment here_xXx

twovests wrote at April 10, 2018, 12:18 AM

holy shit i love this

emma wrote at April 10, 2018, 12:03 AM

# is the hashtag operator, it adds hashtags to your strings

hollyhoppet wrote at April 9, 2018, 11:33 PM

how does # mean length of something?

Personally if I were to choose something for comments i'd say -- is pretty good but then again i have a huge soft spot for ada

voxpoplar wrote at April 9, 2018, 11:35 PM

because it's shorthand for number and it would represent the number of items in a list/array/map/whatever

hollyhoppet wrote at April 10, 2018, 5:46 PM

sorry # only means sharp (music notation) and hashtag now it's a Fact

Moonside wrote at April 10, 2018, 7:10 AM

It's also called the number sign
Size of a mathematical set S or a group G or whatever is notated as #S or #G.
This gets abstracted out into collections of all sorts and the length of a list is equal to the elements it contains.

hollyhoppet wrote at April 9, 2018, 11:20 PM

...huh

The worst part is as far as I can tell the use of ** for exponent predates the use of // for comments so yeah what the heck

Moonside wrote at April 10, 2018, 7:27 AM

I pass

musou wrote at April 10, 2018, 10:32 PM

i guess i'm on the opposite end of that scale, i kinda wish we didn't use slashes for operators at all. sometimes i get confused by which direction the slash is going.

i like this programming suggestion twitter.com

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