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0 pointsamalantony064y ago0 comments

Why does const irk you? const sounds a lot clearer than con. Is that your primary criteria for picking a language? ;)

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mg4y ago

I think it has three reasons:

The more often a construct is used in a language, the shorter I like it to be.

It groups variable definitions mentally by having them all the same length if they are "var", "let" and "con".

It would often make the code look more uniform which is more beautiful in my eyes. Example:

https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/cae635054e17a6f107a39...

I would prefer the lines 226 and 227 to start with "con" and "let". It would make the code visually more appealing to me.

jazzyjackson4y ago

As far as code being visually appealing, for me those two lines are the least of that code’s troubles.

I’m sympathetic to wanting code to have good aesthetics. If I was writing those lines I probably would have daydreamed for 5 minutes thinking of new names for map and record so that the equal signs would line up.

CRConrad4y ago

   con map = ...

   let rec = ...

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