Generality creep

[Paolo Invernizzi]

On Friday, 29 March 2019 at 02:40:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 3/28/19 10:03 PM, Jonathan Marler wrote:
>> On Thursday, 28 March 2019 at 18:30:24 UTC, Andrei 
>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> On 3/28/19 2:12 PM, ag0aep6g wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> We've been worrying too much about changing things.
>>>
>>> On any given issue, even those that widely agreed to be 
>>> clowny, two factions emerge. One advocates change and the 
>>> other advocates against code breakage. Interestingly the 
>>> factions are different depending on the issue, i.e. a given 
>>> person may be in favor of change in one matter and in favor 
>>> of backwards compatibility in another. At any rate, the 
>>> result is years-long stalemate and trench warfare on the 
>>> slightest problems.
>>>
>>> [...]
>> 
>> This is a complete 180 from what you were saying a year ago. 
>> What happened?
>
> "I'd rather be right than consistent." -- Winston Churchill

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