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Well, it's certainly a rant. Honestly, I can see why you might want two kinds of objects to pass via selection: strings, and blobs. But two is an odd number; i
by dsr_ 7y ago
Well, it's certainly a rant.
Honestly, I can see why you might want two kinds of objects to pass via selection: strings, and blobs. But two is an odd number; it ought to be zero, one, or infinite. Zero doesn't help, and one would be hijacked by incompatible systems that would have to guess "are they going to want a JSON representation of this, or a MIME type followed by base64 encoded data?", so I guess that an updatable registry of types would be ok, just really unwieldy, and ... nightmares to follow.
- saghm 7y ago> But two is an odd number This is very tangential, but I was very confused when I read this at first due to the arithmetic meaning of "odd".
- mlyle 7y agoHorses have an even number of legs. Behind they have two legs, and in front they have fore-legs. This makes six legs, which is certainly an odd number of legs for a horse. But the only number that is both even and odd is infinity. Therefore, horses have an infinite number of legs. (from fortune).