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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 3 months ago (7 children)

TBH I fail to see the significant difference between this and a function declaration.

[–] sudo@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

Its like if subroutine bar could say its going to execute at line N of routine foo. But if you were just reading foo then you'd have no clue that it would happen.

You can simulate this effect with bad inheritance patterns.

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