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The bits of Go we avoid (and why) (Go Time #269)

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The Importance of Dynamic Variables in Programming Languages

There was a really interesting proposal by this guy, the Morovius. Have you guys ever run into him online? He's like, he's a super genius about programming languages. But basically no programming languages that are around anymore use dynamic variables because they stink. They're like totally unusable except for this one use case. The way that it works is when you call a function and then you look at the global, what you see depends on who called it. And it's like it would paste over the value with the new value. Anyway, it's this really crazy idea. If there's ever like a go to, I would be really interested to see an idea like that,

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