← Back to context Comment by moron4hire 5 years ago "That we know of" is implicit. 10 comments moron4hire Reply TremendousJudge 5 years ago explicit is better than implicit moron4hire 5 years ago Jesus Christ, this Hyper Text Markup Language page served via the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol over a Transmission Control Protocol connection can be so tiring sometimes. toss1 5 years ago Of course you want to explicitly initialize all your variables and specify contexts in a programming language.In a natural language, implicit and contextual cues are often more important (and can be lost in low bandwidth communication media like this). setgree 5 years ago An article can be as high-bandwidth as it needs to be to communicate clearly... When I read> He turns 190 years old this year, making him the world’s oldest tortoise to ever liveI don't hear an implicit "known" in that. I hear a claim about Jonathan's being the oldest tortoise to ever live, and we have no idea if that's true. 3 replies → kazinator 5 years ago Smartly implemented, documented implicit with test cases and air-tight semantics beats irksomely verbose and repetitive explicit.Moving a return value into the EAX register yourself is more explicit; I don't see a lot of Python code doing that sort of thing. another-dave 5 years ago Though you left your reasons why you think so implied ;)
TremendousJudge 5 years ago explicit is better than implicit moron4hire 5 years ago Jesus Christ, this Hyper Text Markup Language page served via the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol over a Transmission Control Protocol connection can be so tiring sometimes. toss1 5 years ago Of course you want to explicitly initialize all your variables and specify contexts in a programming language.In a natural language, implicit and contextual cues are often more important (and can be lost in low bandwidth communication media like this). setgree 5 years ago An article can be as high-bandwidth as it needs to be to communicate clearly... When I read> He turns 190 years old this year, making him the world’s oldest tortoise to ever liveI don't hear an implicit "known" in that. I hear a claim about Jonathan's being the oldest tortoise to ever live, and we have no idea if that's true. 3 replies → kazinator 5 years ago Smartly implemented, documented implicit with test cases and air-tight semantics beats irksomely verbose and repetitive explicit.Moving a return value into the EAX register yourself is more explicit; I don't see a lot of Python code doing that sort of thing. another-dave 5 years ago Though you left your reasons why you think so implied ;)
moron4hire 5 years ago Jesus Christ, this Hyper Text Markup Language page served via the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol over a Transmission Control Protocol connection can be so tiring sometimes.
toss1 5 years ago Of course you want to explicitly initialize all your variables and specify contexts in a programming language.In a natural language, implicit and contextual cues are often more important (and can be lost in low bandwidth communication media like this). setgree 5 years ago An article can be as high-bandwidth as it needs to be to communicate clearly... When I read> He turns 190 years old this year, making him the world’s oldest tortoise to ever liveI don't hear an implicit "known" in that. I hear a claim about Jonathan's being the oldest tortoise to ever live, and we have no idea if that's true. 3 replies →
setgree 5 years ago An article can be as high-bandwidth as it needs to be to communicate clearly... When I read> He turns 190 years old this year, making him the world’s oldest tortoise to ever liveI don't hear an implicit "known" in that. I hear a claim about Jonathan's being the oldest tortoise to ever live, and we have no idea if that's true. 3 replies →
kazinator 5 years ago Smartly implemented, documented implicit with test cases and air-tight semantics beats irksomely verbose and repetitive explicit.Moving a return value into the EAX register yourself is more explicit; I don't see a lot of Python code doing that sort of thing.
explicit is better than implicit
Jesus Christ, this Hyper Text Markup Language page served via the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol over a Transmission Control Protocol connection can be so tiring sometimes.
Of course you want to explicitly initialize all your variables and specify contexts in a programming language.
In a natural language, implicit and contextual cues are often more important (and can be lost in low bandwidth communication media like this).
An article can be as high-bandwidth as it needs to be to communicate clearly... When I read
> He turns 190 years old this year, making him the world’s oldest tortoise to ever live
I don't hear an implicit "known" in that. I hear a claim about Jonathan's being the oldest tortoise to ever live, and we have no idea if that's true.
3 replies →
Smartly implemented, documented implicit with test cases and air-tight semantics beats irksomely verbose and repetitive explicit.
Moving a return value into the EAX register yourself is more explicit; I don't see a lot of Python code doing that sort of thing.
Though you left your reasons why you think so implied ;)