Re:The two types of C programmers (a provocative thesis)
by throwawaymaths on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @08:08PM
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> Except that the counter can be adjusted by users.
So? You've changed the program, and now it's valid. (as my handle suggests) I was a math major: arbitrarily large but finite is a different category than infinite, and that makes all the difference in the world.
> his sounds exactly like a special calling technique mentioned in the function colors post.
No, but the seam between async and sync in most other implementations requires writing an entire event loop. In this case it's often a single keyword, six characters. At worst, you write an extra function header to wrap it.
It's not the extraness that matters, it's the pain of doing so. Hell, even go requires you write "go" in front of your function to run it asynchronously, and I don't think that this counts as "colored functions".
So? You've changed the program, and now it's valid. (as my handle suggests) I was a math major: arbitrarily large but finite is a different category than infinite, and that makes all the difference in the world.
> his sounds exactly like a special calling technique mentioned in the function colors post.
No, but the seam between async and sync in most other implementations requires writing an entire event loop. In this case it's often a single keyword, six characters. At worst, you write an extra function header to wrap it.
It's not the extraness that matters, it's the pain of doing so. Hell, even go requires you write "go" in front of your function to run it asynchronously, and I don't think that this counts as "colored functions".