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Re:Show HN: 15-question language identification quiz by dunham on Thursday July 13, 2017 @09:17PM (#14766726)
Same here, because I knew they intersected and presumed it was a trick question. Technically, I believe it is neither valid perl nor PHP because it's missing an opening brace on one of the if statements.
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Re:Show HN: 15-question language identification quiz by sethrin on Friday July 14, 2017 @06:48AM (#14768829)
PHP lets you skip using curly braces for conditionals. I've seen real-world code which used this style only once, and it was about as bad as you'd expect.
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Re:Show HN: 15-question language identification quiz by dunham on Saturday July 15, 2017 @04:42PM (#14778821)
Yeah, I suspected that, but it looked like there was a close brace and no open brace. (I only noticed because I was specifically looking at the braces to try to determine if it was PHP.)
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