top | item 46267170 (no title) indolering | 2 months ago Please elaborate! discuss order hn newest conartist6|2 months ago The proposal is to introduce a whole slew of syntax to JS that according to the proposal will have no meaning. This is a paradox. You have only created a language if you can use it to convey meaning gaigalas|2 months ago That's not entirely true. Ideally, there would be a follow up with a reflection API.Also, comments are syntax and they're mostly meaningless. By your reasoning, programming languages should have no comments.So, it's not really a qualitative issue (presence of meaningless syntax) but a quantitative one (presence of lots of parsing complexity). load replies (1)
conartist6|2 months ago The proposal is to introduce a whole slew of syntax to JS that according to the proposal will have no meaning. This is a paradox. You have only created a language if you can use it to convey meaning gaigalas|2 months ago That's not entirely true. Ideally, there would be a follow up with a reflection API.Also, comments are syntax and they're mostly meaningless. By your reasoning, programming languages should have no comments.So, it's not really a qualitative issue (presence of meaningless syntax) but a quantitative one (presence of lots of parsing complexity). load replies (1)
gaigalas|2 months ago That's not entirely true. Ideally, there would be a follow up with a reflection API.Also, comments are syntax and they're mostly meaningless. By your reasoning, programming languages should have no comments.So, it's not really a qualitative issue (presence of meaningless syntax) but a quantitative one (presence of lots of parsing complexity). load replies (1)
conartist6|2 months ago
gaigalas|2 months ago
Also, comments are syntax and they're mostly meaningless. By your reasoning, programming languages should have no comments.
So, it's not really a qualitative issue (presence of meaningless syntax) but a quantitative one (presence of lots of parsing complexity).