syntax difference

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 12:13:40 -0700, Jim Lee wrote:

> On 06/19/2018 04:13 AM, Ed Kellett wrote:
>> I think
>> we're all--still--missing the larger point that "easy to remove" is a
>> completely stupid metric for judging language features. Seriously. Not
>> a little bit stupid.
>
> Not if you think of the feature as analogous to cancer.

That would take it so far beyond the stupidity event horizon that no 
human language has an adjective for how stupid it is.

Besides, annotations aren't cancer. They're obviously terrorism. Any fool 
can see that.


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Steven D'Aprano
"Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing
it everywhere." -- Jon Ronson