[Grace-core] Draft Minutes of Teleconference 9-10.2.2014

[James Noble]

On 13/02/2015, at 08:20 am, Kim Bruce <kim at cs.pomona.edu> wrote:

> I would think it would be very confusing to students to write
>   var x = 10 
>   x := x + 1

well that's the question, isn't it?

and one that is potentially amenable to empirical testing in various ways

although my own experience is that that redundant differentiation between 

var x := 10 
def x = 10 

permitting syntax errors

var x = 10 
def x := 10 

is confusing to me - or at least, I have to stop and think about it

J