On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 02:48:27PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 05:23:22PM +0100, zimoun wrote:
> > Well, I disagree. But yeah, as you said elsewhere 1) the proposal had
> > been done more than 6 months ago so I had time to wake up and raise and
> > 2) let avoid to fall into the Walder’s law; as exposed by the excellent
> > food for thought video [1] you pointed [2].
>
> Can you summarize Walder's law? I don't have time to watch that video.
Never mind, I see that it's Wadler's law:
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In any language design, the total time spent discussing
a feature in this list is proportional to two raised to
the power of its position.
0. Semantics
1. Syntax
2. Lexical syntax
3. Lexical syntax of comments
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