Irrational Exuberance

You are writing a comment about Failure of Implicit Conventions: Determining Function Destructiveness, here is a quick summary:

The distinction between destructive and non-destructive methods is important, but most languages rely on unwritten convention to differentiate one from the other. We need to do better than this.

You are responding to this comment written by Peter Burns on January 3rd 2008, 23:33.

The current commenting system doesn't make comments very discoverable. I realize that right now you're doing a lot of stuff, so no worries, but if and when you get around to it, I think your blog would be well serviced by having the comments on the same page as the post.

Please be aware that comment forms go stale after one hour.

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def a (b, c):
  b * c
end
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