On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 10:49:52 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/18/2015 8:23 PM, deadalnix wrote:
IMO style is the role of the formater. Prompting the
programmer with "don't
write this, write that instead" only crate reaction à la "If
you know what I
meant, why don't you compile that you asshole ?"
Redundancy is built in to the language design on purpose. If
there was no redundancy, any random sequence of bytes would be
a valid program.
It's why statements end in ; even though it is not strictly
necessary.
For an example from another industry, it's why double-entry
bookkeeping was invented. Errors are reduced by introducing
redundancy.
Ideally, the redundancy is there to catch useful error, or it is
just noise. I'm not sure what useful error we are catching here,
as type system already to the check.
