ok but he suggests all comments should be # when # could be used as a perfectly good operator to get the length of something

...huh

The worst part is as far as I can tell the use of ** for exponent predates the use of // for comments so yeah what the heck

it's ok because all comments should be written in the format xXx_comment here_xXx

how does # mean length of something?

Personally if I were to choose something for comments i'd say -- is pretty good but then again i have a huge soft spot for ada

because it's shorthand for number and it would represent the number of items in a list/array/map/whatever

# is the hashtag operator, it adds hashtags to your strings

holy shit i love this

1. It's also called the number sign
2. Size of a mathematical set S or a group G or whatever is notated as #S or #G.
3. This gets abstracted out into collections of all sorts and the length of a list is equal to the elements it contains.

I pass

sorry # only means sharp (music notation) and hashtag now it's a Fact

i guess i'm on the opposite end of that scale, i kinda wish we didn't use slashes for operators at all. sometimes i get confused by which direction the slash is going.