For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”

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    26 days ago

    spaces work fine for natural language, but what about regular languages. How should a programming language parse something like

    x = 1 234

    Sure that works fine in whitespace agnostic languages, but in something like shell script, it could mean “1,234” or [“1”, “234”] (currently, it would be the latter). In a functional language (e.g. Haskell) it would also be parsed as 2 separate numbers.