Re:Why Does Julia Work So Well?
by st1x7 on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @09:42AM
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> but I feel I wouldn't like a code-base that abuses it too much
This is why I think it was a poor design choice to include the feature and actively encourage its use. The benefit of potentially more succint code is far outweighed by having to look with a codebase written entirely in Greek and there's no way to enforce moderation.
Re:Why Does Julia Work So Well?
by pa7x1 on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @12:21PM
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It's impossible to impose moderation in any language and you don't need unicode characters to write stupid code. Java programmers were writing HelloWorldFactory classes way before Julia existed.
Re:Why Does Julia Work So Well?
by kescobo on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @11:54AM
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Style guide for the base language is to generally stick to ascii, and many of the big packages do that too. It's really nice in examples, analysis scripts and the like though.
This is why I think it was a poor design choice to include the feature and actively encourage its use. The benefit of potentially more succint code is far outweighed by having to look with a codebase written entirely in Greek and there's no way to enforce moderation.