On Thursday, 28 October 2021 at 07:45:38 UTC, jfondren wrote:

Only that ^ atm is used as xor, not and :-(
(uh, writing such a sentence makes very clear, why using words instead of symbolic operators is such a bad idea)

On Thursday, 28 October 2021 at 07:45:38 UTC, jfondren wrote:

I think you would have to write to the authors to find out all the alternatives they gave. I don't know if they provided "^" or not.

On Thursday, 28 October 2021 at 08:54:35 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:

Ok, so I read the article again and they did and they were ranked low for OR:

The three lowest ranked for non-programmers: "v", "^", "nor"
The three lowest ranked for programmers: "^", "exclusive and", "nor"

I don't know how they were ranked for AND.

On Wednesday, 27 October 2021 at 18:35:24 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:

Yeah, that's a point of agreement.

On Thursday, 28 October 2021 at 10:34:28 UTC, Basile B. wrote:

BTW "to bool", as you saiy, is not an implicit conv... it's more a special case that only happens when a condition is evaluated so if condition, while condition, CondExp condition, AssertExp, and I think that's all.

That detail is important to understand why pascal and works perfectly with both numbers and booleans ;)

On Thursday, 28 October 2021 at 10:41:23 UTC, Basile B. wrote:

it's because it does not do that. If it does, then and is directly broken.

On Thursday, 28 October 2021 at 07:45:38 UTC, jfondren wrote:

In case anyone is unfamiliar with it, Notation As A Tool Of Thought (Iverson)

https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm

On Thursday, 14 October 2021 at 16:48:12 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:

verbosity

On Monday, 11 October 2021 at 15:59:10 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:

It's not a big one, but I find C#'s enumeration type to be almost completely pointless in web development because it will deserialize invalid values.

If you have

public enum Animal
{
 Cat = 1,
 Dog = 2,
 Bird = 3
}

1. You can still load a database row where the Animal value is, say, 200, and it will not give you any errors
2. You can still receive a web request for an object with property Animal Pet {get;set;} where the Animal value is 1000 and it will deserialize from JSON and create the object with a non-null Pet property like it did it correctly. When you go to use it, it will not be Cat Dog or Bird. It's so dumb.
   There is no advantage of using an enum over a type except when setting a value manually, which you will not be doing often in comparison to user supplied values.

Also, there might as well be methods on C#'s enum, so it's pretty much a complete failure.

On Monday, 11 October 2021 at 15:59:10 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:

Python: Assign operator meaning different things in different context
x = 3
Can mean "create a new variable x with value 3" or "assign the value 3 to variable x". This can hit you both ways, I had bugs because I misspelled a variable and created a new variable instead of assigning a new value to an existing one, and I inadvertently changed the value of an existing variable instead of creating a new one. Because of this, I am also very skeptical of Rust's "variable shadowing" feature.

Python passing by reference unless it doesn't:
i=1; j=i; j+=2
-> i = 1, j=3

li=[1]; lj=li; lj += [2]
-> li = [1,2], lj = [1,2]

• char[] pretends to be an array but is actually more like a linked list
• lots of attributes and keywords

• Cleaning up the attributes
• Making the language simpler, not more complicated

Concerning the "or" vs "||" discussion, as a non-native English speaker, I learned programming as a teenager with barely any English knowledge, and was attracted to the C/C++ syntax as it depends less on English compared to Pascal's syntax.

An English-agnostic programming language would be nice to help non-native English speakers to get into programming more easily, but how would you replace keywords like "if", "while" or "for"?