Programming

Brief Programming languages have the notion of constants which means “variables that can not be mutated once declared and initialized”. Go also has almost the same meaning, but in a different context. To initialize a variable as a constant with a value of 10, we can do something like this: 1 const DISCOUNT = 10 In Go, constants mean “storing a literal to a variable”, this can be seen as a version of pattern matching in Erlang. ...

I was solving a challenge and got to a point where I had to implement a store that could hold arbitrarily deeply nested objects. The new me, I need to see what others have done. I found dot-prop npm package, which solves it quite well. But going through this gist, I found this answer. The author said a “functional way to solve it”… And this right here, is an example of declarative programming. ...

Choose to be clearity over ambiguity

If statement the ruby way.