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Re:Vigil: The eternal morally vigilant programming language by Jtsummers on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @06:04PM (#25053283)
That was a fun read. Reminded me of the (test && commit || revert) approach.

https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/test-commit-revert-870bbd7...

https://medium.com/@tdeniffel/test-commit-revert-questions-a...

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Re:Vigil: The eternal morally vigilant programming language by kortilla on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @06:50AM (#25057579)
> (test && commit || revert)

That doesn’t make sense though. You wouldn’t need to revert if the test failed because it wouldn’t have committed...

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Re:Vigil: The eternal morally vigilant programming language by Jtsummers on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @10:49AM (#25059312)
If you read the links you’d see that “revert” is a reset so that uncommitted changes are reverted or deleted. Just lie what this language does to functions that break their oaths.
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