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You said "When I use the term...", a little phrase implying personal subjective interpretation, and that's was what I was responding to when I said "you can't j
by calambrac 18y ago
You said "When I use the term...", a little phrase implying personal subjective interpretation, and that's was what I was responding to when I said "you can't just make up your definition", but okay, scratch that part.
The more important point was that you can't call someone wrong when they're using the actual, original definition correctly, which I was (the link I included was how the term entered the geek lexicon).
- scott_s 18y agoI said that because, at that point, I realized we had a difference of definition, and I didn't know which one was more common. Having looked at it, I think what I say is the accepted definition - regardless of the origin. But. All of this is a digression. The entire reason I said I don't think this is bikeshedding is because I think there's value in discussing why join is a member of strings and not sequences in Python. Understanding this point helps in understanding Python's design.
- nostrademons 18y agoI find it really amusing that this has degenerated into a debate over the meaning of bikeshedding. Talk about bikeshedding!