{"id":238,"date":"2002-05-10T13:58:51","date_gmt":"2002-05-10T13:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2002\/05\/10\/semi-colons_are_not_acceptable.html"},"modified":"2002-05-10T13:58:51","modified_gmt":"2002-05-10T13:58:51","slug":"semi-colons_are_not_acceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2002\/05\/10\/semi-colons_are_not_acceptable.html","title":{"rendered":"semi-colons are not acceptable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok&#8230; one should not think in semi-colons or Iterators, case statements or if\/else clauses.  Those should be reserved for .java files only, not mental processes or verbal communication.  I did a demo.  At the end of each statement\/sentences, i found myself with a mental picture of a semi-colon.  When i couldn&#8217;t continue, i couldn&#8217;t find the semi-colon and i would have to race through my &#8220;non-compiling&#8221; brain to figure out where the damn thing had gone.  There were parentheses and too many were unmatched reaking major havoc on my mental state.   I have been coding way too much lately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok&#8230; one should not think in semi-colons or Iterators, case statements or if\/else clauses. Those should be reserved for .java files only, not mental processes or verbal communication. I did a demo. At the end of each statement\/sentences, i found myself with a mental picture of a semi-colon. When i couldn&#8217;t continue, i couldn&#8217;t find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}