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Re:Chris Lattner on Swift by nostrademons on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @05:08PM (#7842730)
Wadler's Law: "In any language design, the total time spent discussing a feature in this list is proportional to two raised to the power of its position:

  0. Semantics
  1. Syntax
  2. Lexical syntax
  3. Lexical syntax of comments"
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Re:Chris Lattner on Swift by axman6 on Wednesday June 04, 2014 @02:05AM (#7844243)
Speaking of which, I was quite pleased to see the inclusion of nested comments. Makes getting rid of currently incorrect code during development much easier.
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