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Re:Succinct Data Structures by throwaway290 on Friday March 07, 2025 @11:29PM (#43297513)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_prescription#Formal...
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Re:Succinct Data Structures by dspillett on Saturday March 08, 2025 @05:11AM (#43298973)
Very few of those have official force or cover much more than a subset of language properties (i.e. spelling rules), but definitely more than the "none" of my original assertion.
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Re:Succinct Data Structures by throwaway290 on Sunday March 09, 2025 @05:29AM (#43307600)
"prescriptive" does not mean "have legal force" though...
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