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498 points azhenley | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 02:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.218s | source

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Razengan ◴[31 Oct 25 10:03 UTC] No.45770236[source]▶

If designing your hypothetical ideal language, what are some intuitive/cute keywords you would choose for mutables/immutables?

`let` is so 2020. `const` is too long. `static` makes me fall asleep at the keyboard. `con` sounds bad. How about

`law`?

    law pi = 3.142 (heh typing on Mac autocompleted this)

    law c = 29979245

    law law = "Dredd"

or `set` or `once` or `make`?

teo_zero ◴[01 Nov 25 07:10 UTC] No.45779782[source]▶

Why not "def"?

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1. Razengan ◴[01 Nov 25 12:40 UTC] No.45781191[source]▶

That's fine. But couldn't that just mean "define" any value at all?

There's nothing in it to say it's specifically for defining a value only ONCE.

John Carmack on mutable variables