| 02:45 | <ljharb> | 0x3vh8vy2l75lo4v: because we were more fortunate with try/catch than we were with if/else. |
| 18:20 | <TabAtkins> | Yeah, "if() without braces" is just a legacy mistake we inherited from C. It's a major footgun that most linters complain about, and which we never want to repeat in any new syntax. |
| 18:24 | <ljharb> | it also caused the gotofail SSL bug :-p |
| 18:25 | <Ben Newman (Apollo, @benjamn on GH)> | … and if braces were required, we could perhaps do without the parens, a la Rust |
| 18:27 | <Ben Newman (Apollo, @benjamn on GH)> | (far too late to change, to be clear) |
| 18:28 | <Robin Ricard> | should we restart notes? |
| 18:29 | <bakkot> | Robin Ricard: i'll kick it off again but we probably don't actually need this part captured in detail |
| 18:34 | <Luca Casonato> | … and if braces were required, we could perhaps do without the parens, a la Rust |
| 18:35 | <bakkot> | definitely possible but almost certainly not worth retrofitting |
| 18:41 | <shu> | Automatic Parenthesis Insertion would be a good milestone to retire to |
| 18:42 | <Rob Palmer> | Automatic Parenthesis Insertion would be a good milestone to retire to |
| 18:43 | <shu> | ... |
| 18:43 | <bakkot> | oh no |
| 18:43 | <TabAtkins> | lol that's not the same thing |
| 18:44 | <TabAtkins> | that's just "unclosed constructs at EOF are allowed and implicitly closed" |
| 18:45 | <TabAtkins> | (fwiw CSS does this as well - @media screen { .foo { background-image: url(http://example.com is a valid stylesheet and doesn't technically need the );}} at the end |
| 18:45 | <TabAtkins> | ) |
| 18:45 | <bakkot> | oh man, gotta update my minifier |
| 18:48 | <shu> | you do not have to take the cursed knowledge to heart |
| 18:48 | <bakkot> | code golf is all about cursed knowledge |
| 18:49 | <TabAtkins> | unlike html it at least doesn't have "closing brace auto-closes until it finds the right matching opening brace" behavor |
| 18:49 | <TabAtkins> | aka .foo { background-image: url(foo } is invalid |