18.1.06

Bikeshed coloring

My experience on the Haskell committee caused me to formulate 'Wadler's Law': time spent in debating a feature doubles as one moves down the following list:

  • Semantics
  • Syntax
  • Lexical syntax
  • Lexical syntax of comments

Ezra Cooper spotted a blog entry that explains the same point, more generally and more eloquently.

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