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0 pointsvalarauca19y ago0 comments

Bugs don't hide in variable names or white space.

Compiler errors do. But you catch those first run.

If tab vs 2 spaces vs 3 spaces can induce a logic error that is a purposely obtuse language.

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> Bugs don't hide in variable names or white space.

Bugs do hide in variable names and whitespace.

    thisIsALongVariableName = True
    thisIsaLongVariableName = True

is easy to spot when they're side-by-side, but not so much when they're two pages away from each other. Python's tabs and spaces can confuse the indention in cases so that code that "looks" aligned actually isn't.

If you haven't run into a problem caused by a typo, you haven't been programming long enough.

wott9y ago

This is indeed a problem with languages without mandatory variable declaration. Is it the case of K, Q or whatever its name is?

geocar9y ago

> This is indeed a problem with languages without mandatory variable declaration.

Typos affect everyone. It is not a function of the language that causes you to mistype. It is that the program is long and you cannot see the whole thing that causes you to miss it.

> Is it the case of K, Q or whatever its name is?

{foo}[] generates an error because foo is unbound. What's the difference between {foox} and {fooy}? They both might be variables, and yet it is only by reading the program that you can tell which one is correct.

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geocar9y ago

> Bugs don't hide in variable names or white space.

Bugs do hide in variable names and whitespace.

    thisIsALongVariableName = True
    thisIsaLongVariableName = True

If you haven't run into a problem caused by a typo, you haven't been programming long enough.

wott9y ago

This is indeed a problem with languages without mandatory variable declaration. Is it the case of K, Q or whatever its name is?

geocar9y ago

> This is indeed a problem with languages without mandatory variable declaration.

Typos affect everyone. It is not a function of the language that causes you to mistype. It is that the program is long and you cannot see the whole thing that causes you to miss it.

> Is it the case of K, Q or whatever its name is?

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