One day, there will be a language where changing stuff like this is actually viable, with projectional editing, casting code to whichever vocabulary and grammar is en vogue... :)
On Sunday, 28 August 2016, kdex <[email protected]> wrote: > I use `const` by default as well, but I don't think saving two characters > is worth giving up readability. Newcomers might even think that > "ungrammatical" abbreviations such as `cst` could stand for `cast`, > `constructor` or similar terms related to programming. > > In terms of hindsight, it could have been great if `let` could have been > our `const`, and something like `let mut` or `let mutable` or even `mut` or > `mutable` could have been our `let`. Defaulting to values being constant > and making them mutable explicitly would be an approach that, for instance, > Rust followed. > > Anyway, we're stuck with it now, and if typing `const` takes too much > time, consider creating a keyboard macro that types in `const` for you. ;) > On 08/28/16 22:49, Michael Theriot wrote: > > I also thought cst would have been good. My petty issue is that when > declaring variables all of my constants have a different indentation. > > I define all of my arrow functions with const so I use it fairly often. > > On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 6:59 AM, Cyril Auburtin <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > >> After a year of using `const`, I got used to it, but even with that I >> often feel losing time using it, with those 2 additional chars. It's really >> unfortunate because it's by far the most frequently used for variables >> assignments. >> >> It's also really close to *cons*ole(.log,...), annoying with >> auto-completers >> >> Thing are probably frozen at this time, but `cst`, `ref`, `val` would >> have been interesting >> >> _______________________________________________ >> es-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > > >
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