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Why don't we store the syntax tree instead of the source code?
Why don't we store this syntax tree instead of the source code? Every programmer in a team can serialize this tree to any language, they want and parse back to AST when they finished.
Indeed, th …
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What is the benefit of having the assignment operator return a value?
Are there any practical uses of the assignment operator's return value that could not be trivially rewritten?
Generally speaking, no. The idea of having the value of an assignment expression be t …
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How could thread safety be provided by a programming language similar to the way memory safe...
Java and C# provide memory safety by checking array bounds and pointer dereferences.
It's important to first think about how C# and Java do this. They do so by converting what is undefined behavi …
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Do higher order functions violate the separation of data and code principle?
I'll answer your question by completely denying all of your premises. :-)
I guess in a "perfect world", we would have programs made of data models and functions, and those functions manipulate dat …
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