mmooss 5 days ago

You are such the rebel - using semicolons ilicitly!

> Grammar rules need to be more descriptive than prescriptive.

The style guides - and dictionaries - are way ahead of you, and have long said that.

However, we do need some consistency in order to have clear meaning. Otherwise, you'll write it your new radical way, and others will understand it in the generally understood way.

You can create your own protocols and syntaxes for your computer, but interoperation can be tricky.

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cryptonector 5 days ago

Right, so if you're going to be an innovator, make it clear, otherwise it's not the same language. For example I'm pretty sure that RMS is not completely opaque in his use of semicolons.

mmooss 4 days ago

> so if you're going to be an innovator, make it clear, otherwise it's not the same language.

Agreed.