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Life is hard (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

Missing type or identifier.

A const what?

Also, I read that you have to assign a const when it is declared. Something doesn’t feel right about this statement.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Its javascript, itll just let you do that

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (2 children)

it'll just let you do that

Pretty much sums up JavaScript's entire philosophy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Let me just coalesce these types for you.

[+] [email protected] -16 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Imo, its better for it. A tool shouldnt tell the user what to do

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But the CPU would be thoroughly confused in many cases. Like if you added a number with a string. This means low level tools have too and therefore people who do low level programming are confused and the generally carefree has rules can make it difficult to debug js.

Also I think rust making you write "safe" code unless you explicitly tell it otherwise is a great thing.

So I think that tools telling the user that they're doing something wrong is great, tools telling the user to stick with physical limitations for better performance are completely valid but what js does seem really weird with having constants be reassignable, making them nothing but labels combined with HTML I find it even more annoying.

[–] Justas 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

['a'] + ['b'] = 'ab'

Gets me every time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I'm always more confused by adding integers to strings or something being an empty object because something else was undefined and the console didn't bother to tell me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I think, most of us consider it part of the job of a good tool, that it prevents us from using it wrongly. Allows us to use it much more recklessly.

[–] skulbuny -2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You're downvoted, but you're 100% right. The web is designed to not break. Engineers who can't accept that don't get to complain

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

const long pain = 1;

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

:any

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

void

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Maybe...

const pain = Infinity

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Ackshually you don't need a type qualifier in C

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Well, assuming you meant type specifier, at least not before C99. After that it is required. C23 explicitly states that a type specifier is required for all declarations.

If you actually meant type qualifier, then no. That was never required.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Really? TIL.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Defaults to int if I'm not mistaken.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Huh?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Meanwhile in France: Lunch time!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

can't stop eating though

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can't stop eating dough

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Baguette du fromage

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

For mage in pain:

[–] jflorez 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If they move to Python they can just have pain without constant 😜

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

And if they learned French instead, they had bread but this is not how it works. We don't always get what we want nor what we deserve

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

The variable is not initialised.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Age or experience? Because both are funny

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

const_cast

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

And pain is immutable

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

For (life) { suffering; }

[–] ArbitraryValue 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I spent those years in dll hell.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

.so please, I use arch btw.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

bool theEnd;

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Is that a vaio?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Mood