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minus-squarecopacetic@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up65·23 天前Calm down. It’s Rust, not PHP.
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·edit-222 天前PHP has less fewer dependencies.
minus-squaresmeenz@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down2·22 天前*fewer. You can’t have half a dependency
minus-squareAugust27th@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up9·22 天前Huh. I never realized that fewer was integer typed and less is float* typed until this comment.
minus-squareTheRedSpade@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·22 天前Not exactly. I’ve usually heard it explained as “quantifiable” vs not. If you can attach a number, it’s “fewer”, otherwise it’s “less”. e.g. less money, fewer dollars
minus-squareEknz@lemmy.eknz.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·22 天前I think you can in Rust though, e.g. switching individual features from a crate on and off. /s
minus-squareSlurpingPus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·22 天前Fun fact: you actually can in Pascal, even when building from binary dependencies.
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·22 天前I don’t like this word because i tend to confuse it with fever.
Calm down. It’s Rust, not PHP.
PHP has
lessfewer dependencies.*fewer. You can’t have half a dependency
Huh. I never realized that fewer was integer typed and less is float* typed until this comment.
Not exactly. I’ve usually heard it explained as “quantifiable” vs not. If you can attach a number, it’s “fewer”, otherwise it’s “less”.
e.g. less money, fewer dollars
Countable nouns vs mass nouns.
Correct !
I think you can in Rust though, e.g. switching individual features from a crate on and off. /s
Fun fact: you actually can in Pascal, even when building from binary dependencies.
I don’t like this word because i tend to confuse it with fever.