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Something I hate about about c is that you don't know where the hell somefunc() came from.

Some languages have foo.somefunc() which I think works quite well although iffooisrealllylong.function() is a risk.

I suppose this gets you the best of both worlds.

Although using let does seem a bit weird to me. It seems conceptually misleading.

Something I hate about about c is that you don't know where the hell somefunc() came from.

I think you mean something you hate about not using an IDE with the language. One can do `from onoz import *` in python and Java to have a similar "wait, where did do_magic() come from?" experience, and then Scala will see your wildcard import and raise you implicit methods, which can die in a raging fire tornado

I think you mean something you hate about not using an IDE with the language

Well it's a 'feature' of the language so the criticism still stands. Ides could solve a lot of language warts but we still rightfully criticise the language for the warts. C's lack of memory safety could be solved by good programming practices, but we still criticise c for the lack of memory safety.

This is true that there is no language feature to enforce this. But this can be worked around by enforcing naming functions with adequate prefixes, which is a very common approach, if not a best practice.

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