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I think the main issue with those folks wasn't if/how they're right, but rather how they treated the commenter.

• moralestapia 3y ago
  This. The thing was so obscure that even seasoned people who have worked with this for many years didn't know about it. I guess the takeaway is to stay humble because you never know what you don't know.
  • pavlov 3y ago
    And more specifically, never get into arguments about what C++ can do because it’s guaranteed that someone has used it the way you assume it should never be used.
• angiosperm 3y ago
  They probably totally forgot the conversation only seconds later, and did not intend humiliation or perceive any humiliation. He said something not usefully correct for the circumstances under discussion, and was corrected without fuss. Then he carried a grudge.
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