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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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