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From: Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com>
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Subject: Re: Top 10 most common hard skills listed on resumes...
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2024 18:47:44 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-09-01, Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> writes:
>> Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> writes:
>>> Any invalid syntax condition that can be removed using parentheses
>>> is not worth enforcing at the parse level.  If it's wrong to
>>> assign to x + 1, you also need to diagnose when it's (x + 1).
>>> It's better to have a single rule which catches both.
>>
>> If you want to think that you are free to do so.  But the
>> statement is nothing more than one person's opinion.
>
> Tim, are you under the impression that we need help figuring out
> whether something is an opinion or not?  I don't believe we do.

The point obviously not that it's an opinion, but that it's only one
person's opinion; i.e. that I have an opinion not shared by anyone,
insinuating that it's extremely weird or poorly considered (or else so
brilliant that its blinding `wisdom is inaccessible to anyone else).

For that head count to be correct, it must be the case that:

1. Either BartCC is not a person, or else I'm not, or else we
   are not distinct persons.

2. This one person is somehow responsible for all those compilers
   parsing x + 1 = y like (x + 1) = y, and letting it succumb to the
   modifiable lvalue constraint.  (Or else, that implementation choice
   is just a random, or even ignorant, deviation from the formal grammar
   in ISO C, and doesn't actually reflect what anyone thinks is
   better---but in that case they still implemented something coinciding
   with the one person's weird opinion).


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