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I mean, this is a reply to a comment pointing out the that article says > each layer requires the previous one So at least the article thinks the hierarchy ha

• notacoward 6y ago
  > the article thinks the hierarchy has order You probably think that was a great "checkmate" response but it's quite the opposite. No matter what the author meant, what I meant was quite clear. "Requires" does not necessarily refer to order. Requirements to do X after Y are not uncommon in real life. "If this happens, you must do that" is even codified into some laws. Requirements to do A optionally before B are not uncommon either. Think of a recipe with optional ingredients. You can add pepperoni before you bake a pizza, or not, but if you just add the pepperoni but don't bake you'll get a poor result. The pepperoni-adding requires the baking to produce a useful result, even though the order is reversed. Just as with code, lifting words out of context often produces a poor result. Reviewers should do better.