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Outliving The Great Variable Shortage

One of the more annoying problems in code, confounding readability and maintainability, frustrating test-writing, is that of the multidomain variable. I suppose somebody forgot to clue me in to the...

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"Outliving The Great Variable Shortage" by Tim

Correction made. I don’t have anything sem-humorous to add to the mistake. Many eyes make all blogs shallow? Thank you for the catch.

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"Outliving The Great Variable Shortage" by djoubert.co.uk

David, Well I totally agree with you, it can become very frustrating in perl to check whether the user has actually given input as ‘0’, 0 and ’ ’ all evaluate to false. PHP solves it nicely with a...

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"Outliving The Great Variable Shortage" by Jason

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"Outliving The Great Variable Shortage" by Tim

Re: null, zero, false, empty, etc: I was raised in C. In C it was considered very poor form to compare anything to “true” (1), because there are so many ‘true’ values, and relatively few ‘false’...

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"Outliving The Great Variable Shortage" by mgsloan

Take a look at the hindley milner type system. It’s got your requirement of having a specific domain down, yet disagrees with your multiple kinds judgement. I suppose that repurposing and able to take...

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"Outliving The Great Variable Shortage" by nullness

Agreed with mgsloan. Another language that has those properties is Scala. Maybe is equivalent to Option[T], which is either Some[T](value) or None. You can then use pattern matching to branch based on...

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"Outliving The Great Variable Shortage" by JJM

I’ve recently come to like it when empty arrays, tuples and strings evaluate to false. Most of the times it doesn’t matter whether a function was passed an empty array, an empty tuple or a...

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"Outliving The Great Variable Shortage" by Tony Morris

“A variable should have a SINGLE DOMAIN.”—Well, the very notion of a “single domain” is a projected perspective. Nevertheless, the correction is, “A variable should not exist”, since change is an...

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"Outliving The Great Variable Shortage" by George Dinwiddie

WRT: “I suggest, in the case of constrained footprint where there truly is a Great Variable Shortage (GVS) that if (and that’s a big if) the author absolutely MUST repurpose variables on the fly that...

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"Outliving The Great Variable Shortage" by Tim

Well, it is convenient in Python that {} and [] are also false values, but hardly satisfactory to me. It lacks a delicious explicitness. Let’s put it to bed, because it was hardly my main point. My...

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"Outliving The Great Variable Shortage" by Criminal Records

One thing that languages often lack is a concise, well specified generics system. In haskell, it’s called type parameters. This allows for constructing new types by composing types together.

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"Outliving The Great Variable Shortage" by Tenant Screening

A variable should mean one thing, and one thing only. It should not mean one thing in one circumstance, and carry a different value from a different domain some other time.

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"Outliving The Great Variable Shortage" by Dessert Recipes

A floor polish as a dessert topping does not sound appetising… I liked nullness’ pysweeper example. Very apt! It seems when it comes to variables your rules probably make a lot of sense for best practice.

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"Outliving The Great Variable Shortage" by Dessert Recipes

Forgot to say Curlys Law is a good principle to follow!!

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’ pysweeper example. Very apt! It seems when it comes to variables your rules probably make a lot of sense for best practice.

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