Rhubarb, Thursday, 30 April 12026 HE, Walpurgis
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2013-08-06 – Apple iPhone 4
night-blooming cereus, San José, California
I’ve been waffling between Pascal and Lua lately and I came across one construction in Pascal that just feels off to me :
result1 = WeekOfTheYear(Now, result2);
it’s that whole altering a variable (result2) inside a function –
it’s perfectly valid since the function is inside the variable’s scope – but Lua
does things just a little differently :
result1, result2 = weekOfTheYear(now)
functions in Pascal could be written to return a 2-entry array, but in this particular case that would require rewriting a Pascal system library that’s worked just fine for at least a couple decades now – it’s just another reminder that each programming language has its own mindset
the day before
the month before
the quarter before
the year before