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I did. I left it out for two reasons: - the comment asked for a "simpler" explanation and associativity isn't a specially simple concept if you are not familiar with it and does no…

You have a value of a certain type. You have another value of the same type. If there exist a function (let's call it "combine") that combines those two values and emits a third va…

I'm surprised the author does not mention another reason that've heard in favour of using Latex: scale and predictability. A LaTeX Document will always behave the same whatever its…

Too bad this as just a rant. There are some interesting statements to make about programming language features that come from this title. For example one can contrast languages tha…

Why didn't they fork the actual swift compiler that does all the lexing, parsing, syntax checking, type checking, SIL generation, LLVMIR generation, and add a final phase that comp…

Good point. Thank you!

Hi, Here is the situation: I've received a letter from my uni saying I cannot continue my studies there. I love the theory of programming languages and I've been studying on the si…

Your behaviour exactly illustrates the equivalent between the two: arbitrary social pressure against what is, I would argue, better for humanity. Thankfully, we have strong smart i…

It's like the author doesn't know what he's doing. Why would you ever want to maintain such code when the language already solves all that for you with optional chaining and flatMa…

This post is basically saying "I don't understand programming and I won't even try"

If I disable meanings in the settings I see video and picture results. Is that the intended behaviour?