I often find flow-crutches like the one described in this proposal more confusing to decipher than plain old fashioned, well thought out code.
Lambda (=>) expressions in C# and closures in JavaScript are others I sometimes find myself pausing at to make sure I'm interpreting correctly.
I always figured it's just because I'm an older programmer and haven't used the new language features enough for them to become intuitive. I do acknowledge there are use cases where they're a perfect fit for the pattern in which you're coding.
But I feel like they're too-often taken as a shortcut to dump a bunch of operations in one place when it would be more readable to structure into well-organized functions that logically group concerns.
It's not that I don't like syntactic sugar to make code more concise, I just think languages need to remain judicious about how many different ways they dole out to accomplish the same task before they start to risk 'rotting their teeth'. Gotta keep striving for elegance - as you renovate over time it can get harder to keep the bar high.
I often find flow-crutches like the one described in this proposal more confusing to decipher than plain old fashioned, well thought out code.
Lambda (=>) expressions in C# and closures in JavaScript are others I sometimes find myself pausing at to make sure I'm interpreting correctly.
I always figured it's just because I'm an older programmer and haven't used the new language features enough for them to become intuitive. I do acknowledge there are use cases where they're a perfect fit for the pattern in which you're coding.
But I feel like they're too-often taken as a shortcut to dump a bunch of operations in one place when it would be more readable to structure into well-organized functions that logically group concerns.
It's not that I don't like syntactic sugar to make code more concise, I just think languages need to remain judicious about how many different ways they dole out to accomplish the same task before they start to risk 'rotting their teeth'. Gotta keep striving for elegance - as you renovate over time it can get harder to keep the bar high.