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To counter your anecdote with some more anecdote, I just switched from Chrome to Firefox and have felt that the latter has some serious performance advantages o
by Sahonon 11y ago
To counter your anecdote with some more anecdote, I just switched from Chrome to Firefox and have felt that the latter has some serious performance advantages over the former.
- nkurz 11y agoIt's probably just me, but I always struggle with the "latter" and "former" construction, especially when they are reversed like that. I had to read it several times before I understood. In case it helps someone else, it translates as: To counter your anecdote with some more anecdote, I switched from Chrome to Firefox, and have felt that that Firefox has some serious performance advantages over Chrome. I wonder sometimes if my inability to parse sentences like this relates to my preference for C over C++. The "former" and "latter" abstraction reminds me of Eli's examples here http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2016/returning-multiple-values-from-functions-in-c/ http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2016/returning-multiple-values-... of first->first and first->second.
- Sahonon 11y agoSorry to have been unclear -- thank you for making the effort to read my measly comment, however! It does appear similar to the idea of abusing tuples, insofar as having to keep the meanings of each element in mind without any help from the syntax. shrugs I guess my nervousness around Internet commenting surfaces as excessively formal language. Apologies again for any future confusion :|