alcover · HackerLangs

vor 17 Tagendiscuss

    fun repeat(str :: String, n :: Nat) :: List:
        [body]

I may be over-sensitive to looks but... god why ?

    fun repeat(str: String, n: Nat): List =

would be prettier. (I guess authors had to compromise in affecting symbols)

alcover

letzten Monatdiscuss

Fascinating broken-bot glitch, thank you. Reminds me of some sci-fi movies.

alcover

vor 4 Monatendiscuss

May the Gods be with him. The nostalgia is very strong. Opening Flash and start a new project was an immense source of joy to me in the 00's.

alcover

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

Thank you. This reading lowers my anxiety. I believe we'll rationally - and in a hurry - come down to this kind of solution. It makes solid sense.

alcover

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

> (1) If I read "io.print", is this "the print function in the module io" or "the print method for the variable io"

I don't see the issue. Just look up the id ? Moreover, if modules are seen as objects, the meaning is quite the same.

> checking is much easier if the namespace is clear from the grammar.

Again (this time by the checker) just look up the symbol table ?

alcover

vor 7 Monatendiscuss

That's it. Plus they would work neatly on old computers/phones.

alcover

vor 7 Monatendiscuss

I agree. Something componenty like Flash, yes. But it'd be easier to subset what already exists..

alcover

vor 7 Monatendiscuss

Oh they would care if one shows them much snappier versions of services they use. They just don't know better.

alcover

vor 7 Monatendiscuss

> that means being compatible with websites that normal people use

No, new adhering websites would emerge and word of mouth would do the rest : normal people would see this fast nerd-web and want rid of their bloated day-to-day monster of a web life.

One can still hope..

alcover

vor 7 Monatendiscuss

I wish for this new year we reboot the Web with a super light standard and accompanying ecosystem with

    - A small and efficient JS subset, HTML, CSS
    - A family of very simple browsers that do just that
    - A new Web that adheres to the above

That would make my year.

alcover

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

I am also doing this. Like you i guess I want a nicer C. I produce my own errors though because it's better for the user.

alcover

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

Naive question: would using such an OS bring some security by obscurity ?

alcover

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

You need two keywords. One for assignability and one for writability :

    const ptr;  // can't reassign, can't write-through (if r/o by default)
    const mut ptr;  // can write

alcover

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

> you don't need both a "const" keyword and a "mutable" keyword

What if the lang has pointers? How express read-only?

alcover

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

It's important because we seem to be the only (visible) thing that can scheme.

alcover

vor 9 Monatendiscuss

I agree so much. For all we know yet, there's nothing out there. Nothing conscious or even sentient. So our lives and the life on earth are infinitely important.

I never understood this `we're but a speck`. Do you know of many other specks with life ?

alcover

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

  Get better [...] so that you stand out

Please bear with me but this kind of advice is often a bit puzzling to me. I suppose you don't know the person you're replying to, so I read your advice as a general one - useful to anyone in the parent's position. If you were close to her, it would make sense to help her 'stand out' in detriment - logically - to strangers in her field. But here you're kind of helping every reader stand out.

I realise this comment is a bit vain. And I like the human touch of you helping a stranger.

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