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Nov 11 |
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Is it OK to use dynamic typing to reduce the amount of variables in scope? I can imagine it would be horribly comlicated but I don't think it would cause any runtime problems. Scoping can be determined statically by the compiler. |
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Nov 11 |
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Nov 11 |
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Is it OK to use dynamic typing to reduce the amount of variables in scope? I'm not worried about reusing variables for performance. I'm worried about the bug risk of leaving variables (and values) in scope after they cease to be useful to me. |
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Nov 11 |
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Is it OK to use dynamic typing to reduce the amount of variables in scope? I edited the question in order to try to clear up my point. I don't think this is a strict duplicate of the "reuse variables" question since my main issue is scoping the variable. I also don't think the answer there is useful to me, since in both examples I gave the transformation function (open, new RegExp) is already refactored. Also for my purposes refactoring things in many methods is an orthogonal issue, since just adding extra blocks {} would do mostly the same thing, as far as scoping goes... |
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Nov 11 |
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Is it OK to use dynamic typing to reduce the amount of variables in scope? added 362 characters in body |
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Nov 11 |
asked | Is it OK to use dynamic typing to reduce the amount of variables in scope? |
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Nov 11 |
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Can a function be too short? Tautological functions are fine for higher order code (although in this case you often use anonymous lambdas instead) |
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Nov 11 |
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Why don't we store the syntax tree instead of the source code? Tell this to the LISPers now... |
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Nov 10 |
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Analyzing a programming language deleted 11 characters in body |
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Nov 10 |
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Analyzing a programming language added 7 characters in body |
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Nov 10 |
answered | Analyzing a programming language |
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Nov 9 |
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What should be changed in the system used to teach IT in my school? Why the hell is UML the first thing on that list? |
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Nov 9 |
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Where did the notion of “one return only” come from? From the last paragraph of "Goto Statement considered harmful": "in [2] Guiseppe Jacopini seems to have proved the (logical) superfluousness of the go to statement. The exercise to translate an arbitrary flow diagram more or less mechanically into a jump-less one, however, is not to be recommended. Then the resulting flow diagram cannot be expected to be more transparent than the original one." |
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Nov 9 |
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Where did the notion of “one return only” come from? I bet you must be one of those guys that also litters the code with boolean flags instead of using break and continue in loops. |
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Nov 5 |
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Is it necessary to know and understand design patterns in order to be a professional programmer? Some design patterns are pretty dependent on the language you use not obsoleting them :P |
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Oct 25 |
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Should I teach my students alloca? The stack is a C invention. The computer can work really well without it so C is not that good of a model for the base machine |
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Oct 25 |
answered | Should I teach my students alloca? |
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Oct 21 |
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Oct 16 |
awarded | Commentator |
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Oct 16 |
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Do exceptions basically exist to prevent a system from crashing? Actually handling "abnormal" control flow is precisely when goto and its friend break are the most useful. The advantage of exceptions is that they can cross function boundaries and that the caller can determine where its most apropriate to catch it. |
