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The use of the word "copy" is very confusing. What the author means when he says "copying" is completely different from the usual meaning of the word. He shoul
by vog 16y ago
The use of the word "copy" is very confusing.
What the author means when he says "copying" is completely different from the usual meaning of the word. He should have called it "linking" or even better "instantiating" (in the sense of prototype-based OO).
This is especially annoying at the end of Demo1 where he concludes that "copy & paste is decriminalized". This sounds much less revolutionary if you translate "copy" into what he actually means. Then it reads like "instantiating and changing objects is decriminalized", which is elementary common sense in programming.