Questions tagged [design-choice-comparison]
For questions comparing different programming languages' designs of a feature.
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Why do "modern" languages not provide argv and exit code in main?
C/C++ has an entrypoint int main(int argc, char **argv);, which provides the program with the arguments passed to it and a way to signal back the result:
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Multi-stage programming vs monomorphization/defunctionalization
I believe the main purpose of both multi-stage programming (à la MetaOcaml and ppx_stage) (AKA staged metaprogramming) and monomorphization (à la Roc and Rust) is to remove some amount of indirection ...
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Designing conditional compilation blocks
ECMAScript and C have a totally different nature. Certain syntactic features are cryptic in C and don't fit exactly into ECMAScript dialects.
For example, I don't think the following:
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Why do (or don't) languages forbid unreachable code?
In Java, the following is a compile-time error, due to the unreachable statement:
while(true) {
break;
System.out.println("unreachable");
}
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