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Re:Elm 0.19 Broke Us by noncoml on Saturday August 25, 2018 @07:54PM (#17843286)
That’s exactly the kind of answers I got instead of giving me one good engineering reason on why primes were made forbidden just like this. Thanks for the demonstration.
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Re:Elm 0.19 Broke Us by star-techate on Saturday August 25, 2018 @08:10PM (#17843360)
The actual reason is probably "when people use primes, they post code that gets syntax-highlighted by tools that don't know about primes, and this results in Elm code looking broken and stupid."
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Re:Elm 0.19 Broke Us by noncoml on Saturday August 25, 2018 @08:16PM (#17843397)
Which is not a good reason to ban them completely from one release to the next. It only shows that they don’t really care about their users that much.
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