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> It argues that arbitrary limits on the number of instances of a particular type of data or structure should not be allowed. Either this is a misuse of "arbit
by furyofantares 4y ago
> It argues that arbitrary limits on the number of instances of a particular type of data or structure should not be allowed.
Either this is a misuse of "arbitrary" or it's not really arguing for no limits beyond 1. In the Carmack example from another comment, if you know your solution isn't going to scale well beyond 1000 items, that's not an arbitrary limit, and it's not 0 or 1 either. When we choose not to allow users to back up their hard drive in the username field of their account, that's not an arbitrary limit.
- xigoi 4y agoIt is arbitrary. Why can it handle 1000 items, but not 1001 items?