syntax difference

[Alister]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 03:13:09 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> 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.

Annotations were invented by the Nazi's on the explicit instruction of 
Hitler.
there, can someone now invoke Godwins law & call this discussion 
closed :-)



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