Comment by Zababa

4 years ago

> It also works as a double entendre-- "con" in Spanish means "with".

Triple even! In French it's the equivalent of "cunt".

And in English, to go full circle, a con is what a con man pulls; a confidence trick.

Hey BTW, is a JS "const" really constant, or can it (like in some other languages) be changed after all? Because if it can, then it isn't really const but more of a con...

  • > Hey BTW, is a JS "const" really constant, or can it (like in some other languages) be changed after all? Because if it can, then it isn't really const but more of a con...

    It's constant for things like numbers, but if you declare an array const, the only const things is the reference, the array can still mutate. con might be a good name for that.