Oct. 15, 2013
7:30 a.m.
On 15/10/2013 02:39, Nick Coghlan wrote:
The desire for conceptual purity and consistency is a good one, it just needs to be balanced against the practical constraints of writing, maintaining, documenting, teaching and learning the standard library.
"It isn't worth the hassle" is the answer to a whole lot of "Why not X?" questions in software development :)
Cheers, Nick.
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