On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 08:33:04PM -0700, Chris Smith wrote: > This conversation reminds me of a parable I encountered somewhere, in which > someone declares "I don't understand why this decision was ever made, and I > we should change it", and someone responds, "No, if you don't understand > the decision was made, then you don't know enough to change it. If you > learn why it was decided that way in the first place, then you will have > the understanding to decide whether to change it."
That parable is Chesterton's fence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton's_fence _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
