Comment on I dunno

ExtremeDullard@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  5 isn’t a valid function name, is obviously the right answer.

  5 is a coefficient of the Term 5(8-5) is the correct answer

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• TheRedSpade@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How can you be sure it’s not defined when we only see one line?

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  • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They didn’t say it’s not defined, they said it’s not a valid name. Most languages don’t allow function names to start with a number, so 5 literally cannot be a function if that’s the case…

    But that’s assuming this isn’t some really obscure language.

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    • SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      so 5 literally cannot be a function if that’s the case

      No, but it can be and is a coefficient of the Term 5(8-5)

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• gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It could be a Church Numeral in which case function application is the same as addition and the answer is actually 10…

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• merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Depends on the language.

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  • SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Depends on the language

    No it doesn’t

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    • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes it does.

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      • SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yes it does

        Says person who can’t cite a single example of it depending on the language 🙄

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• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure that’s a module operator…

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