On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <s...@cs.brown.edu> wrote: > Very nice lunch break, though it's really the intersection of Postel's > Law and reflection that you're highlighting here. The problem with > that is that reflection breaks just about *everything*, so it's harder > to blame ol' Jon Postel. (-: >
Right, I'm defending him! Insufficient respect for abstraction is what bites you, and I was reminded of the recent frustrated chatter about browser detection. As Neil pointed out in this thread, from some points of view, the web is pretty hopeless, but I think it's good to be both precise and abstract when dealing with despair. Anthony _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
