Git's list of banned C functions

Re:Git's list of banned C functions by UncleMeat on Thursday March 04, 2021 @06:34PM (#26350060)

An old grad school connection of mine wrote a formal semantics for ES5 and couldn't explain what "with" did in words.

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Re:Git's list of banned C functions by 1f60c on Thursday March 04, 2021 @07:11PM (#26350452)

This is JavaScript, so there are probably tons of weird edge cases, but basically, within a with (expr) { … } block, everything defined on expr is put in scope:

  with (Math) with (console) log(PI)

It reminds me a bit of Clojure's doto.

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Re:Git's list of banned C functions by kaba0 on Friday March 05, 2021 @11:02AM (#26358313)

Or java’s static import

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