April 28, 2005
7:01 a.m.
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Greg Ewing wrote:
If such an explanation can't be found, I strongly suspect that this doesn't correspond to a cohesive enough concept to be made into a built-in language feature. If you can't give a short, understandable explanation of it, then it's probably a bad idea.
In general, i agree with the sentiment of this -- though it's also okay if there is a way to break the concept down into concepts that *are* simple enough to have short, understandable explanations. -- ?!ng