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Name before type: why 'age int' is better than 'int age'
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this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2026
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This suggestion was made by the year-day-month dateformat gang.
That's year-month-day hour:minute:second.millisecond +/-TZ, you heathen!
Say what you like about that gang, it definitely makes lexical sorting of dates easy.
I would say this is one of the worst dates formatting possible.
Read my comment again. ๐