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Joel Harmon

2:54 AM

@amon I agree that @JörgWMittag is looking for 'referential transparency', but I'm curious why you would call it weak.

3 hours later…

Jörg W Mittag

6:10 AM

*Referential Transparency* means that you should be able to replace an expression with its value and vice-versa without changing the meaning of the program.

I.e. you should be able to replace

printf("Hello");

with

6

without changing the meaning of the program.

What I am looking for is the property that I should be able to replace

printf("Hello");

with

void hello() {
printf("Hello");
}

hello();

without changing the meaning of the program.

6 hours later…

Joel Harmon

11:58 AM

@JörgWMittag Ah, I see. I don't think I've heard of that.

3 hours later…

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3:21 PM

Introducing Subject Matter Experts

Lori Colston on December 04, 2019

One of the great secondary benefits of an open knowledge base like Stack Overflow for Teams is that anyone can contribute. When exceptional answers get voted to the top, your organization gets to identify subject matter experts. Today we’re excited to announce our new subject matter expert feature that allows domain experts to be easily recognized and acknowledged within your organization.

The new feature, available on the Business tier of Stack Overflow for Teams and coming to the Enterprise tier in 2020, allows your Team to associate a subject matter expert (SME) with a tag. Multiple Team members can be designated as SMEs for any given tag by your Team Admin. …