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 on January 3rd 2008, 23:33.

Ah, this is much better.

I like commenting systems that force you to preview your comment beforehand.

Reddit's commenting system is strange in that regard. It uses a very nonstandard syntax, and the standard thing to do is to post and then edit your post until it looks right.

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

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