Comment on ifn't

the_of_and_a_to@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• JPDev@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  unlessn’t

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• Goun@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m sorry, I hate the “unless” so much

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  • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At one of my first jobs, I was tasked to rewrite a bunch of legacy Perl scripts in Python and the unless lines always made me trip up. I don’t know why but it really messed with my mental flow when reading Perl code

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• chaogomu@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Basic used "else".

  It's nice. "if", "then", and "else". I spent a year programming a shitty roulette game on an Apple 2e back in high school. I still remember the joy of using if/then/else paired with goto to make a horrible mess of spaghetti logic.

  But yeah, "else" is nice.

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Using a standalone ‘else’ would tickle my brain in the same nice way that being able to declare a variable inside an ‘if’ statement as if it were a ‘for’ loop (witch you can do in modern C++) does.

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    • Lmaydev@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Many languages let you scope variables.

      In c# you can create an arbitrary scope to declare variables in. Most likely in others as well.

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      • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ah clever, didn’t think of doing this. Not having to encapsulate if statements in scopes would still look cleaner though

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    • Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or a rust “if let”

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      • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ooh yes. Rust is king when it comes to this sort of inline stuff. Inline match. Mmmmmm!

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    • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Block scoped variables are bad?

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      • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        🤷‍♂️

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  • Deceptichum@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Let's just scrap every language except various forms of BASIC.

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    • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Please God, no. I had to unravel terminal scripting code that was written in some propriety BASIC language with basically no documentation.

      Took me a chunk of time trying to figure out how it worked before I made the realization that it was BASIC

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      • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Try PL/SQL.

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• EnderMB@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I haven’t written any Ruby for years, but I still praise it in every conversation I have regarding programming languages. It’s basically a much simpler Python, with some design ideas that are both beautiful and deeply strange.

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  • OskarAxolotl@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ruby was designed to evoke joy and they absolutely succeeded. Usually, programming is mostly a means to an end to me. But using Ruby just feels so amazing, it’s almost impossible to even describe to somebody who has never used it before.

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• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Perl version of it is even greater!

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