azolotko

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   Absurdist on abandoning personal projects(old.reddit.com)

   3 points by azolotko 3y ago|0 comments
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   by azolotko 7y ago

   400k CVS commits
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   by azolotko 8y ago

   You have a pretty narrow definition of a platform. Consider https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing_platform Yes, you are right, I didn't consider the checkcast instruction. Yes, F# does not have this particular
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   by azolotko 8y ago

   I suppose you meant boxing/unboxing. If so, yes, that's necessary for primitive types. As for regular objects, no casts are needed. Regarding TCO, that's a well known limitation of the current Scala compiler. Hardly a "h
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   by azolotko 8y ago

   JVM knows nothing about generics. What kind of casts are you talking about? Trampolines are a common technique to implement tailcalls on platforms that don't support them natively. What are the horror stories then? Why would you bother
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   by azolotko 14y ago

   AFAIK there was a Postgres extension that did something like that. But than it became deprecated and was eventualy removed.
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   by azolotko 14y ago

   In Datomic you can setup a function the transactor can call within a transaction. This function takes the current value of the database and other supplied arguments (e.g. $100 and -$50 from your example) and according to its logic produce