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If you want to peer into an alternative reality / funhouse mirror of programming terms, you should look at ALGOL 68. For instance, types are called "modes". ht
by pmcgoron 7mo ago
If you want to peer into an alternative reality / funhouse mirror of programming terms, you should look at ALGOL 68. For instance, types are called "modes".
https://jemarch.net/a68-jargon/ https://jemarch.net/a68-jargon/
(There are also "incestuous unions", which is the actual term used in the spec.)
- Onavo 7mo agoFrom the docs, an incestuous union is the equivalent of a packed union in C? Well, you gotta be packing' to be incestuous :D
- nxobject 7mo agoHuh - R has a concept of “mode” that overlaps and complements “type”… but then again R also a very funhouse mix of terminology. https://rstudio.github.io/r-manuals/r-lang/Objects.html#index-mode https://rstudio.github.io/r-manuals/r-lang/Objects.html#inde...