Re:Perl 5.26.0 released
by pyre on Thursday June 01, 2017 @12:32PM
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That's not a requirement of anonymous callbacks. That's just a symptom of poor coding standards. It can happen in Python too.
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Re:Perl 5.26.0 released
by mixmastamyk on Thursday June 01, 2017 @02:59PM
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And yet the two go hand in hand. Have never seen it in Python, though have never used twisted either.
> And yet the two go hand in hand.
It's a tool that can be abused. Saying that the number of tools available should be limited so that they can't be abused seems counter-productive.
Re:Perl 5.26.0 released
by mixmastamyk on Friday June 02, 2017 @06:17PM
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The trend toward limiting ultimately counter-productive language flexibility is getting stronger, not weakening.
See static typing, golang, and functional languages.