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Re:Succinct Data Structures by throwaway290 on Friday March 07, 2025 @11:25PM (#43297495)
> There are no prescriptive dictionaries, at least not correct ones, for living languages.

there are no 100% correct descriptive dictionaries. Any prescriptive dictionary is automatically correct.

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Re:Succinct Data Structures by dspillett on Saturday March 08, 2025 @05:15AM (#43298993)
> 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.

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Re:Succinct Data Structures by throwaway290 on Sunday March 09, 2025 @05:31AM (#43307606)
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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Re:Succinct Data Structures by computably on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @03:34AM (#43340715)
Right, just like every law is automatically just. /s
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Re:Succinct Data Structures by throwaway290 on Thursday March 13, 2025 @01:19AM (#43350593)
If it's not just then change the law!
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