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Use this information wisely (lemmy.today)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is pretty cool. But my question is if the compiler knows it’s basically the same thing visually, why doesn’t it treat it the same way as far as syntax and just make them functionally equivalent;

[–] arrowMace@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Because then logically extending this you end up with JavaScript, where "1"==1 and it's super hard to reason about what will/should happen