Things I Was Wrong About: Types

Re:Things I Was Wrong About: Types by eru on Monday September 28, 2020 @12:23AM (#24612940)

Coming from Haskell and Scheme, I'm now waiting for them to unify the syntactic handling of variables.

At the moment, you have to put a $ in front of most variables, and no adornment for when you want to call something as a function. Reminds me of Common Lisp with its two name spaces for functions and other variables.

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Re:Things I Was Wrong About: Types by billisonline on Monday September 28, 2020 @06:04AM (#24614957)

Yeah, the $ sigil for variables is a historical curiosity, but I don’t think it’s going anywhere. It would be an unacceptable BC break for codebases that have implicitly relied on this “two namespaces” behavior

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Re:Things I Was Wrong About: Types by eru on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @03:33AM (#24625053)

Alas, yes. And it doesn't cause any real problems apart from aesthetics.

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