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> You want to add new features to the language... such as "type checking". Feel free to put that in scare quotes, as if you can barely register its existence!
by platz 9y ago
> You want to add new features to the language... such as "type checking".
Feel free to put that in scare quotes, as if you can barely register its existence! In fact, that whole enterprise is probably misguided and full of falsehoods, anyways, having witnessed the lies and attacks, first hand, for years! Better nip it in the bud now, while you still can!
- jasode 9y ago>scare quotes I don't think the author had malicious intent. Unfortunately, we use quote marks for at least 2 different meanings: (1) <scare_quote>type checking</scare_quote> ... as dismissive sarcasm (2) <term_of_art_quote>type checking</term_of_art_quote> ... as a delimiters for industry vocabulary Based on all the other uses of quotes in the blog post, he's using it as (2) terms of art. Some style guides suggest using italics instead of quotes for terms of art but a nice property of "quotes" is that it survives copy & paste into plain text files.
- platz 9y agoAh i see.. my mistake, thank you.