Re:A complete guide to TypeScript’s 'never' type
by Latty on Friday March 11, 2022 @10:53AM
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Reminds me of a classic linguistics joke (I assume from a Tom Scott video given where I encounter linguistics the most):
A professor is lecturing on linguistics: "In English a double negative has a positive meaning. However, in some languages—such as Russian—a double negative still has a negative meaning. There isn't, however, a language in which a double positive holds a negative meaning."
A student in the back responds: "Yeah, right."
Re:A complete guide to TypeScript’s 'never' type
by ratzkewatzke on Friday March 11, 2022 @11:09AM
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This is widely attributed to Sidney Morgenbesser (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Morgenbesser).
Re:A complete guide to TypeScript’s 'never' type
by eyelidlessness on Monday March 14, 2022 @02:31AM
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This reminds me of ruminations with a friend about the nuance of combined positive/negative affirmations. Eg “no yeah” used as an emphatic agreement in the positive, and “yeah no” an emphatic agreement in the negative.
Re:A complete guide to TypeScript’s 'never' type
by mananaysiempre on Friday March 11, 2022 @11:01AM
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The high-brow name for this syntactic gadget is “negative concord”[1], and Wikipedia lists plenty of languages that have it[2] (including several European ones and even Old English!).
https://www.russiantutoring.com/post/double-negation-in-russ...