On 06/17/2018 02:17 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
[snip] My apologies, stuff wrapped and I misread as I skimmed back. You were the one who used the word "shoehorned". In the same way, that sounds like you already knew the language, and then someone added extra features that don't fit. It's not shoehorning if the feature was already there before you met the language. The point is the same, the citation incorrect. Mea culpa. ChrisA
Of course it is "shoehorning". Why do you care when I started using the language? Shoehorning implies an attempt to add a feature that didn't exist in the original design - a feature that is a difficult, awkward, or ill-fitting complement to the original design. Whether it happened yesterday or 12 years ago is immaterial. When I personally met the language is also immaterial.
Microsoft "shoehorned" a Linux subsystem into Windows. I don't even use Windows, yet by your logic, I can't call it "shoehorning".
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