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[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 55 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

5 isn't a valid function name, is obviously the right answer.

[–] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 13 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

How can you be sure it's not defined when we only see one line?

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

They didn't say it's not defined, they said it's not a valid name. Most languages don't allow function names to start with a number, so 5 literally cannot be a function if that's the case.

But that's assuming this isn't some really obscure language.

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

It could be a Church Numeral

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

I'm pretty sure that's a module operator...