alt Hacker NewsBut that's not a rule, it should be Stroustrop's Observation:
For new features, people insist on LOUD explicit syntax.
For established features, people want terse notation.
But that's not a rule, it should be Stroustrop's Observation:
For new features, people insist on LOUD explicit syntax.
For established features, people want terse notation.
A rule can be prescriptive (thou shalt...) or descriptive (it's always true that...).
The Golden Rule is the first. This is the second.
Nobody follows Hyrum's Law (also the second), they suffer from it inevitably applying to them.