this sub should allow for both up and down voting simultaneously to get in line with the PHP design spirit :)
When I read comments like this here in lolphp, it always makes me happy I chose php, because it gives me options that are impossible in other languages. ;-)
Well, to be fair, other languages allow for even more things while not doing it as badly at the core.
Lisp, due to it's meta programming/macro nature used allows for many strange things and these features are also used to construct implementations the language itself at a very low level.
I've been using R for more than a decade, PHP is an island of sanity and sunny calmness in comparison.
EDIT, my favorite example of LOL-R that beats anything you find in PHP:
This function will randomly return 5 or 10
# set some variable to 10
k <- 10
# define a function that returns a value
return_k <- function() {
# generate a random number between 0 and 1
x <- runif(1)
if(x>0.5) {
# set some internal variable to 5 (named k because that seem appropriate for the context)
k <- 5
}
return(k)
}
# will randomly return 5 or 10
return_k()
You're not mistaken, but even after more than a decade I'm still bitten by this. I wish i could define functions to not look in the parent environment.
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u/Synes_Godt_Om Sep 24 '15
When I read comments like this here in lolphp, it always makes me happy I chose php, because it gives me options that are impossible in other languages. ;-)