HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · edit-29 days agoWhy make it complicated?lemmy.mlimagemessage-square122fedilinkarrow-up1363arrow-down139file-text
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minus-squareAnotherPenguin@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 days agoAt least in C#, you can define variables with keyword names like this: var @struct = “abc” I think in Kotlin you can do the same, and even include spaces with backticks like val abstract class = “abc” I’m not sure if other languages allow that, regardless it should be rarely used.
minus-squarepivot_root@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 days agoSwift also uses backticks and Rust has a dumb one in the form of r#thekeyword. Still much better than introducing a async as a new keyword in a minor version of a language and breaking a bunch of libraries.
At least in C#, you can define variables with keyword names like this:
var @struct = “abc”
I think in Kotlin you can do the same, and even include spaces with backticks like val
abstract class= “abc”I’m not sure if other languages allow that, regardless it should be rarely used.
Swift also uses backticks and Rust has a dumb one in the form of
r#thekeyword. Still much better than introducing aasyncas a new keyword in a minor version of a language and breaking a bunch of libraries.Python?