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Re:Show HN: Sabre – The bullshit-free (c) programming language by dragonwriter on Saturday February 20, 2021 @06:42PM (#26209231)
> For the majority of languages with a `let` keyword, it creates a binding which can’t be reassigned. JS is the only major language I’m aware of that breaks this expectation

The whole BASIC family, including the VB subfamily, also breaks it, though in some (including VB) LET is an optional noise keyword and not required.

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Re:Show HN: Sabre – The bullshit-free (c) programming language by eyelidlessness on Saturday February 20, 2021 @09:12PM (#26210217)
That’s fair and a reasonable contradiction. Though I’d say that’s more in line with the huge range of optional keywords in SQL that are more a matter of readability preference than syntax.
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