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Update constants section to talk about inlining #203

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aslilac opened this issue Dec 1, 2022 · 1 comment
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Update constants section to talk about inlining #203

aslilac opened this issue Dec 1, 2022 · 1 comment
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aslilac commented Dec 1, 2022

https://gleam.run/book/tour/constants.html

When a constant is referenced the value is inlined by the compiler

This is true for Erlang, but not for JavaScript, and it would probably make more sense to update this documentation than the change the JavaScript generation, because there are actually a lot of reasons why JavaScript constant inlining would be bad.
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lpil commented Dec 1, 2022

Yup yup, this is outdated documentation. Thank you!

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