Re:Updating the Go Code of Conduct
by ThrustVectoring on Thursday May 24, 2018 @05:40PM
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>Explicit is better than implicit.
Not necessarily. Being explicit has tradeoffs, both costs and benefits. One of the big costs is that it empowers people to behave antisocially on the "right" side of the explicit line drawn, and teaches people what they can get away with. Like, real life law grants broad discretion to human judges for exactly this reason - so that people playing bullshit games can get benchslapped for it.
Not necessarily. Being explicit has tradeoffs, both costs and benefits. One of the big costs is that it empowers people to behave antisocially on the "right" side of the explicit line drawn, and teaches people what they can get away with. Like, real life law grants broad discretion to human judges for exactly this reason - so that people playing bullshit games can get benchslapped for it.