food for thought - swift 5 released - bottom types, string interpolation, and stuff.

Mon Apr 15 23:02:34 UTC 2019

On 4/13/19 8:22 PM, mate wrote:
> On Saturday, 13 April 2019 at 07:47:03 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) 
> wrote:
>> On 4/13/19 1:44 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> On 4/12/2019 9:38 PM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote:
>>>> It's about the cognitive load.
>>>
>>> As I pointed out upthread, isOdd() has a higher cognitive load.
>>
>> Not for normal programmers.
> 
> If you don’t know the modulo operator you should probably not be 
> programming, and should spend some time in learning the basics of the 
> language first. You don’t drive a car before knowing where the blinkers 
> are.

How many flippin' times to I have point out the freaking difference 
between knowing something, vs having it so deeply internalized it ceases 
to be on a separate level of abstraction???

People! Quit using this stupid "...not knowing XYZ..." strawman!!