Constantly amazed at the complexity and nonsense people will embrace just to avoid passing arguments to functions.
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Oh I know, but “tricks to avoid passing arguments to function” is a pretty good definition of implicits! And blame
@propensive for resurrecting it today, I hadn’t realised it was not a very recent tweet
I didn't check the date! I had no idea until just now that it wasn't fresh (but all too aware the last five years haven't fixed much).
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Safe to assume this'll be an evergreen tweet
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The Germans probably have a word for a tweet that comes back to life from time to time.
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How do you end up on a *many years olds* tweet without realising it though? I mean in my case it was retweeted in my timeline, but... do you run random searches like “pithy tpolecat quote” and see what pops up?
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Someone else must have done something to promote it. It just appeared in my [out-of-]timeline.
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