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teddyhtoday at 5:50 PM1 replyview on HN

> New problem sets not covered by the garden path come up all the time.

I believe the appropriate term is “happy path”, not “garden path”.


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QuercusMaxtoday at 6:27 PM

The idiom "garden path" typically refers to a misleading path, as in "He led me down the garden path" (to take advantage). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence.

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