On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Xavier G. Domingo <[email protected]>
wrote:

> El 14/07/2017 a las 12:20, Edward K. Ream escribió:
>
> Imo, section references is clearly the very worst idea that the
> usually-brilliant Donald Knuth ever had. They are wretched engineering:
>
> I read somewhere that the purpose of section references was precisely to
> have kinda "procedures" or "callbacks" in languages which do not have such
> constructs, as HTML for example. So it is in fact a very clever idea in
> that context!
>

​And that's why Leo uses << imports>>, for example.
​


> But I agree with you that it is of very few use (except maybe for
> repetitive import code or similar) in languages like Python.
>

I agree.

Edward

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