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Re:Crystal Language That Aims at C Performance with Ruby Syn... by xmly on Friday April 02, 2021 @04:10PM (#26675426)
This could be a killer feature - smart inferred function name.
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Re:Crystal Language That Aims at C Performance with Ruby Syn... by saghm on Friday April 02, 2021 @04:41PM (#26675760)
As a joke in college, I came up with the idea of a language that used fuzzy-matching to find the variable/function name with the closest match to the identifier used if an exact match wasn't found. This has the "fun" property where as long as a single variable is in scope, there are no undefined variable errors :)
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Re:Crystal Language That Aims at C Performance with Ruby Syn... by trenchgun on Saturday April 03, 2021 @03:06AM (#26678927)
This seems like a super fun idea
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Re:Crystal Language That Aims at C Performance with Ruby Syn... by de6u99er on Friday April 02, 2021 @04:16PM (#26675476)
Until someone adds a method called fib (staying with the example of the thread) doing something completely different.
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Re:Crystal Language That Aims at C Performance with Ruby Syn... by entropicdrifter on Friday April 02, 2021 @04:37PM (#26675711)
Dynamic method swapout during recursion! Who doesn't want that feature?
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