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dspillett 83 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Succinct data structures

> Any prescriptive dictionary is automatically correct.

… in the view of their compilers.

I could write a prescriptive dictionary far more easily than I could get others to accept it as correct.

throwaway290 82 days ago [–]

If you write a prescriptive dictionary it is correct because you are dictating the norms not describing what is real.

Yes you would have to be involved with a regulatory institution first

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