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Why was the swap operator proposal shot down?

Nov 08, 2020

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Why does Rust put a :: before the parameters in generics sometimes?

Oct 19, 2022

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Can I define a pointer in julia?

Sep 15, 2022

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Is it possible to implement F#'s infrastructure for Units of Measurement in Scala?

Apr 05, 2022

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Could operator overloading have worked without references?

Sep 14, 2018

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What's Int.MaxValue between friends?

May 12, 2022

scala jvm language-design

Javascript apparent madness [duplicate]

Jul 28, 2022

javascript language-design

Why doesn't a swap / exchange operator exist in imperative or OO languages like C/C++/C#/Java...?

May 11, 2022

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Why does PHP's call_user_func() function not support passing by reference?

Jun 06, 2021

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What is necessary from a language implementation point of view to implement type providers like in F# 3.0?

Sep 23, 2022

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Is it possible to build Lisp-like macros into an imperative language?

Sep 17, 2022

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Why can't overloading be implemented at excecution time?

Nov 13, 2022

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Why does Haskell use -> instead of =?

Aug 19, 2022

haskell language-design

Why doesn't ORACLE allow consecutive newline characters in commands?

Jul 08, 2019

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Uses for Dynamic Languages

Sep 15, 2022

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What is the reasoning for C# not supporting optional/default arguments?

Sep 30, 2022

c# language-design

What is the rationale for the behavior of the 'this' keyword in JavaScript?

Oct 26, 2022

javascript language-design

Where are the new ideas in programming languages? [closed]

Oct 26, 2018

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Which python classes allow assignment to not-yet-existent attributes, and which don't? [duplicate]

Apr 28, 2022

python attributes language-design

Why aren't the arguments to File.new symbols instead of strings?

Nov 10, 2022

ruby language-design symbols

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