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slurgfest on Sept 1, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Did I Choose Perl When Building Crowdtilt?

It's not that hard to know the types of the variables you created without punctuation in the identifiers, either.

dllthomas on Sept 1, 2012 | [–]

Well, it's not just the type of the variable but also how you're treating it - world's most concise cast...

Also, it means one doesn't have to dodge keywords in naming their variables. Doesn't count for a lot but is nice.

prawks on Sept 1, 2012 | [–]

>you created

Agreed. However, working for a company with more than one developer...

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