On Wednesday, 20 November 2013 at 23:57:40 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
On 11/20/13 3:45 PM, Dicebot wrote:
On Wednesday, 20 November 2013 at 20:47:10 UTC, Andrei
Alexandrescu wrote:
There are a bunch of styles that are consistent yet used by
nobody,
because they are objectively worse. So consistency is not the
sole
requirement. Then you hadn't mentioned "that is liked by at
least one
programmer" which moves the goalposts. Then one programmer
can be one
highly unusual human being, so there is strength in numbers.
You see, the whole definition of term "objective comparison"
implies
comparison by traits other than actual usage.
No, because the quantity being measured is "worse".
Andrei
Ho please, we aren't in a schoolyard.
