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xyzzyb
on May 15, 2012
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Underscores are stupid
Whitespace is already extremely significant in programming. "foo[1]" vs "foo [1]" for example.
pilot_pirx
on May 15, 2012
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Depends on language, in Ruby those statements would be identical. But anyway, that's no reason to make things even worse.
mbrubeck
on May 15, 2012
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In Ruby those statements are the same when
foo
is bound to an array, but they are different when
foo
is bound to a function...
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