Comment on I dunno

• Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Some forms of programming syntax, although there are the fringe cases where an equation is represented by a symbol in conjunction with a parentheses input.

  For example:

  y(x) = 2x+3

  5+y(1) = 10, as 1 is substituted in for x in the prior equation.

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  • TheBlackLounge@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And in some languages a number can be used as a name of a variable or a function, so it can be anything really

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    • MotoAsh@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not in most programming languages, though. You cannot start names with a number. Unless you’re using some strange character that merely looks like a number, anyways. Programming with unicode can get weird but generally works without issue these days.

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  • moriquende@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wouldn’t we just assume function expressions are always “in parenthesis”? Then it’s just a substitution and no rules were changed.

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