Making the Most of the JavaScript Language (2016)

Re:Making the Most of the JavaScript Language (2016) by WorldMaker on Friday August 04, 2017 @02:42PM (#14930910)

Going way back to ancient Lisps `let` has been the const declaration in a lot of programming languages. It's too bad ES2015 decided to use `let` for `var`/`val`, because `let` should have been const.

That said, I've come to terms with const, even if I find I accidentally use let sometimes from time spent in Lisp and F#.

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Re:Making the Most of the JavaScript Language (2016) by kazinator on Friday August 04, 2017 @11:31PM (#14934076)

let is not a "const declaration" in most major dialects of Lisp, current and historic. In Scheme, Common Lisp, ISLisp, Emacs Lisp and others, it introduces mutable bindings.

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Re:Making the Most of the JavaScript Language (2016) by WorldMaker on Monday August 07, 2017 @03:29PM (#14950465)

Apologies, my Common Lisp is getting rusty.

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