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Yes, some unfortunate historical choices there.

• JadeNB 12y ago
  > Yes, some unfortunate historical choices there. Do you know anything about the motivation of those choices? Surely it won't have escaped anyone's notice, especially not the designers', that this is a wart on the language, and that there is an easy solution; so I can only imagine that the easy solution was rejected for its inelegance—which seems strange, given the devotion to theoretical purity of the rest of the language. (I contrast the situation here to that of the numeric tower, which is clearly flawed but for which, even now, the 'right' approach is not so clear.)