Having an asterisk both be the type indicator and the dereference operator is one of the great programming language design blunders of our time, along with allowing nulls for any type in so many languages.

[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I also sometimes wish that the syntax in if statements was inverted, where () was optional and {} was required.

[–] CodexArcanum@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Rust makes this choice and it is way better.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Based

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Having assignments return a value is right up there as well.

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Because of the possibility of accidentally performing an assignment in a conditional expression?

If yes, I agree that it's not great.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, exactly that.