>Why post this stuff? He offers opinion without explanation He does offer explanations (e.g, related to anonymous inline regular expressions that they cannot b

>Why post this stuff? He offers opinion without explanation He does offer explanations (e.g, related to anonymous inline regular expressions that they cannot be cached and that they don't easily convey their purpose like a name would). Plus, whether he offers explanations or not is beside the point. It's a blog post, not a published paper, and as such it can serve to get the ball rolling. Which it did, judging from the discussion here.