{"id":1343,"date":"2010-07-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2010\/07\/05\/1282\/"},"modified":"2010-07-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T22:00:00","slug":"1282","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2010\/07\/05\/1282\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget the Defaults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Bray \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/201x\/2010\/06\/29\/No-Defaults\">Forget the Defaults<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Seriously. I\u2019ve learned a lot of programming languages over the years, and I\u2019ve taken care never to learn the operator precedence rules in any of them. It\u2019s easy to get them wrong and get bitten and why should I require that people <em>reading<\/em> my code learn those stupid rules.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Bray \u2013 Forget the Defaults: &#8222;Seriously. I\u2019ve learned a lot of programming languages over the years, and I\u2019ve taken care never to learn the operator precedence rules in any of them. It\u2019s easy to get them wrong and get bitten and why should I require that people reading my code learn those stupid rules.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}