• toastal@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    Folks acting like Python is the only language without semicolons. 😏

    I got tripped up so many time in the last 3 weeks using PHP after years in ML family languages. I am already newlining & it’d be poor style to put more than one statement on a line so what is the point of these semicolons?

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        7 months ago

        The best languages about really embracing punctuation as you would in English is Prolog & Erlang with their periods, semicolons, & commas.

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      7 months ago

      it’d be poor style to put more than one statement on a line

      Unlike Python, most languages do not endorse a specific concept of style. You’re free to dabble in all the bad style choices you like, on the off chance that once in a blue moon they prove to be situationally useful.