Why aren't you using Coffeescript?
Name:
Anonymous
2013-07-20 23:10
Look at this goddamn for loop:
class Set
constructor = (elements...) ->
@ary = []
@ary.push e for e in elements when not (e in @ary)
Now tell me your language is more readable than that.
Name:
Anonymous
2013-07-20 23:11
smalltalk was better.
Name:
Anonymous
2013-07-20 23:11
Real men use tail recursion.
Name:
Anonymous
2013-07-20 23:16
>>3
Ya, but your tail recursion simplifies to a for loop in the end, so why bother?
Name:
Anonymous
2013-07-20 23:18
>>4
Even if it uses lazy evaluation?
Name:
Anonymous
2013-07-20 23:32
>>1
Jeremy Ashkenas (inventor of CoffeeScript) -
JEW
Name:
Anonymous
2013-07-20 23:33
>>5
That question has an interesting answer, but I can't go into it because of my vow of interesting silence.
Name:
Anonymous
2013-07-21 0:48
>>7
Could you also go on a hunger strike? I'd like a more permanent solution.
Name:
Anonymous
2013-07-21 3:39
>>8
If I starve to death and die, I wont be able to remind you of when I could have been helpful, but choose not to be.
Name:
Anonymous
2013-07-21 8:49
Why does it use a squiggly prefix on one variable but not the other one?
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