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Re:Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life on Thursday December 21, 2017 @01:27PM (#15981436)
Why haven't I observed my old iPhone 4 or 5 spontaneously rebooting?
Re:More Gotchas of Defer in Go, Part II on Thursday December 21, 2017 @01:04PM (#15981176)
This is too sneaky and seems like poor form.

I'm curious what good use-case there is for this, that the language bothered to support and allow this to even compile.

Duplicate variable name declaration + referencing in the same scope is unintuitive at best, and just seems wrong.