Tag: values

The Two Kinds of Integers ◰ 2015-04-11 3:15
Code: abstractions, assembly, Haskell, Ruby, values
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A small thing I see tripping up developers is that there are two kinds of integers: numbers and identifiers.

We don’t know what the integer 4 means unless we know what it’s for. Are we counting things, or identifying them? It’s really easy to slip between the two, like this real code snippet I found:

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