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Re:Poor writing, not specialized concepts, drives difficulty... by ben_w on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @03:37PM (#32930414)
Not sure (not a lawyer), but at the very least the "Hereinafter referred to as…" statement can point to the entire agreement containing that statement: https://s3.studylib.net/store/data/008711807_1-e257ae31713cf...

The advantage of natural languages is self-referential infinite recursion is basically fine. The downside is, no compile-time checks for logical inconsistencies.

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Re:Poor writing, not specialized concepts, drives difficulty... by renewiltord on Thursday September 22, 2022 @12:23AM (#32934774)
Right, in theory, but in practice they don't really use that functionality, right? I think the reason they don't is that they have macro hygiene issues with the language because while natural language has supreme flexibility, it does not have easy to use scoping constructs and so things inside the macro will leak to outside the macro.
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