Re: Thought about const

[kdex]

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 
> 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

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Re: Thought about const

[Michael Theriot]

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 
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
>
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Re: Thought about const

[Wes Garland]

How often do you type const in a day?

Saving 2 characters will save you 250ms assuming you are a decent
keyboardist.

I'll trade 250ms of typing for clarity any day.

Wes

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On Aug 28, 2016, at 08:00, Cyril Auburtin  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

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Thought about const

[Cyril Auburtin]

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
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