On 1/28/15 3:14 PM, FG wrote:
On 2015-01-28 at 23:27, Walter Bright wrote:
Good language design has redundancy in it. Often people see the
redundancy, and advocate removing it as noise. But the redundancy has
a valuable purpose - diagnosing of errors, and offering suggestions
for fixing the errors. If there was no redundancy in the language,
every random sequence of bytes would be a valid program.
I'm quite sure I have read this very same thing not so long ago. :)
We should add that stuff and what Jonathan wrote to the FAQ on the wiki.
-- Andrei
