Re: RfD: Number Prefixes

Bruce McFarling wrote:
On Aug 12, 5:25 pm, John Doty <j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bruce McFarling wrote:
The library no longer has to worry about messing with the user's
default ... with the library treating DEFAULT-BASE as read-only, the
library can always restore the user's default before handing
interpretation back to the user.

One library's user is another user's library.

Just as one person's aphorism is another person's excuse for not
presenting an argument.


Aphorism? It's the nature of software. I write a library, somebody else imports it. I like what their code does, so I import that. And then I'm still not the "user", somebody else uses my code. You can't make the distinction between "library" and "user" in any useful way. But the "code" versus "data" distinction, while not perfectly clean in principle, is useful because it reflects both human psychology and the way computers are commonly used.

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