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The hamming distance between val and var is tiny; easy to miss in a code review.


When assigning to val more than once: in a statically checked language the compiler will complain, and devs default to 'val' anyway. In a dynamic language you'd quickly get a runtime error.

Using 'var' instead of 'val' where possible: the compiler/linter will tell you this.

Or do you mean something else?




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