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| Posted by evilrat in reply to Dylan Graham | PermalinkReply |
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evilrat
Posted in reply to Dylan Graham
| On Saturday, 18 September 2021 at 08:02:13 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:
> On Friday, 17 September 2021 at 14:37:29 UTC, Meta wrote:
> On Friday, 17 September 2021 at 10:31:34 UTC, bauss wrote:
> On Thursday, 16 September 2021 at 20:53:34 UTC, Elmar wrote:
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It's just another "useless" attribute that the language has added before fixing any of the real problems :)
Basically it reserves a symbol for the future.
It's similar to creating ex. an empty function that throws an error or something like "Not implemented"
While I understand why it was added and what purpose it serves then I fail to see why that was prioritized over actual issues.
It's solving an almost non-existing issue.
I think the main reason it was added is because Sociomantic asked for it, but they are of course not around anymore.
Off topic: what happened to them, out of curiosity?
IIRC they went out of business for inability to compete OR it was consumed by a another advertising company, there was a thread on a forum from Sonke about that event.
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