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Re:Advent of Nim by anentropic on Thursday November 29, 2018 @11:18AM (#18561293)
yeah but if you do that and the language lets you get away with it... ugh

I did not know this about Nim and does also seem quite a big turn off and a bit of a WTF decision

I have never coded any Nim, just read about it though :)

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Re:Advent of Nim by mclehman on Thursday November 29, 2018 @08:20PM (#18565802)
I've never used Nim either (mostly C/Perl6/Clojure), but all I hear when this gets brought up is that I would finally be able to use a consistent style for all code I write, regardless of whether or not I personally implemented everything I'm using.
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Re:Advent of Nim by anentropic on Friday December 07, 2018 @10:57AM (#18628682)
thinking more about it...

I guess the intention is NOT to let you carelessly use Myvar, MyVar and myvar willy-nilly in your code, as I had first imagined

I assume the intention is to PREVENT you from deliberately defining those names as different vars, which would be confusing

So, on reflection, maybe it is not such a WTF

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