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A comment on Principle of Least Astonishment. Parent comment

Re:Principle of Least Astonishment by drewcoo on Monday April 06, 2020 @05:46PM (#22798214)
But if "instead of" means "I expected," doesn't that also mean that Javascript and Python don't do what you expected?
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Re:Principle of Least Astonishment by ithkuil on Monday April 06, 2020 @06:15PM (#22798422)
JS & python both have:

'//'.split('/') => [ '', '', '' ] '/'.split('/') => [ '', '' ] '',split('/') => [ '' ]

so they indeed produce what parent expected.

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