What color is your function? (2015)
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What color is your function? (2015)
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#3All my functions ... every one I have ever written in my entire life: the color ass or doo doo brown.
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#4All my functions ... every one I have ever written in my entire life: the color ass or doo doo brown.
Can you please not post like this to HN? We're trying for higher-quality discussion here, to the extent possible.
It's especially important not to post unsubstantive stuff to a fresh thread, because threads are super sensitive to initial conditions.
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#5Previous related threads:
What Color Is Your Function? (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23218782 - May 2020 (85 comments)
What Color is Your Function? (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16732948 - April 2018 (45 comments)
What Color Is Your Function? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8984648 - Feb 2015 (143 comments)
What Color Is Your Function? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8982494 - Feb 2015 (3 comments)
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#6Oh, I didn't realize it was a retro night at HN
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#7Zig’s functions are colorblind: https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-colorblind-async-await/
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#8You can call an async from a non async function of course. You just can’t return it’s result synchronously.
Nitpick aside, I have got to the point where I care little! Every language has its boilerplatish things, be it Elm’s JSON parsing, GO’s “if (err != nil)” or Haskells myriad language extension declarations. I don’t think asyncs on a chain of functions, or converting a callback function into a promise based one is that bad.
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#9In previous threads I haven't seen an in-depth discussion of algebraic effects as a solution to this problem, i.e. composing arbitrarily-many 'red' functions. Thoughts?
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#10You can call an async from a non async function of course. You just can’t return it’s result synchronously. Nitpick aside, I have got to the point where I care little! Every language has its boilerplatish things, be it Elm’s JSON parsing, GO’s “if (err != nil)” or Haskells myriad language extension declarations. I don’t think asyncs on a chain of functions, or converting a callback function into a promise based one i…
The sticky part is when a callback returns a value and you can’t compute it without doing I/O.