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What are variables and semicolons for actually? (programming.dev)
submitted 7 months ago by TadoTheRustacean@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[โ€“] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 24 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Neat FP style. Pretty verbose though. Someone should invent a terser syntax so you don't need to write do_two_things everywhere. It's a common operation so maybe it could even be a single character.

[โ€“] TadoTheRustacean@programming.dev 7 points 7 months ago

If you know about rust you know it's a programmable programming language, meaning that you can make macros. There could be a macro that would do that but 1. Macros is rust code to write rust code so they have the complexity of rust squared 2. I said to myself the only macros I will allow myself to use in this challenge is println and allow

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