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Seeing as the existing use is without the hyphen, shouldn't this proposal be updated to match?

• dredmorbius 5y ago
  Ken Thompson was once asked what he would do differently if he were redesigning the UNIX system. His reply: "I'd spell creat with an e." https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson
  • ctoth 5y ago
    He finally did [0]! [0]: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/c90d392ce3d3203e0c32b3f98d1e68c4c2b4c49b https://github.com/golang/go/commit/c90d392ce3d3203e0c32b3f9...
  • remram 5y ago
    The biggest oops we're stuck with is the Referer HTTP header. At least that one was intentional.
    • colejohnson66 5y ago
      Intentional? Really?
      • saurik 5y ago
        I was confused by your comment, but I am betting you parsed "that one" as the referer situation; I am quite confident it referred to the creat situation.
        • colejohnson66 5y ago
          Yes. My understanding is that `creat` was intentional due to early limits on variable names `O_CREAT` is 8 characters (7 + null), but `Referer` was an accident. So parsing the parent comment as saying `Referer` was intentional confused me. “Why would you intentionally misspell that?”
          • saurik 5y ago
            Right, but that was unlikely to be the correct parse as we don't normally use phrasing like that; we say "well, you might think X is Y, just let me tell you Z is actually way more Y... at least in your Z situation, A is true, which mitigates how Y it could be". There was a lot elided here, but the structure was the same.