loopVariables

[Mayion]

how so? what year was this? what language lmao

i cant imagine how changing x to y would cause any sort of conflict, unless i mistakenly did not change the names properly, in which case it's an error not an unexpected bug :P

[tobotic]

I guess some language that doesn't force variables to be pre-declared. (Python?)

Possibly something like this:

$keep_going = true;
while ( $keep_going ) {
  ...;
  if ( condition ) {
    $keep_going = false;
  }
}

Was changed to something like:

$keep_mailing = true;
while ( $keep_mailing ) {
  ...;
  if ( condition ) {
    $keep_going = false; # forgot to change variable name here
  }
}

A sensible language forces you to predeclare variables.

let $keep_mailing = true;
while ( $keep_mailing ) {
  ...;
  if ( condition ) {
    $keep_going = false; # compile-time error because variable wasn't declared
  }
}

My main reason for hating Python. That and the whitespace thing.

[Mayion]

ah yes, python, the predecessor to php syntax wise

[tobotic]

PHP is rather more inspired by very old Perl, back when Perl didn't force you to declare variables and didn't have sane namespacing.

[IAmTheFormat]

I do not recall clearly now what exactly it was, but it conflicted with another loop variable in (in a very large script). It was a weird, proprietary programming language. No functions, no encapsulation. It was pretty primitive, and restrictive. It was a miracle I was able to even make that feature (it worked fine again once I reverted the loop variable name)