though admittedly, I also think intuitions about whether implementation details matter aren’t terribly trustworthy when we’re talking about a proposed design that cannot conceivably work in practice
Yeah, the whole GLUT scenario is really pretty silly to begin with, so I don’t exactly disagree (as you’d say) . Perhaps the main lesson from here is that it’s rather difficult, if not impossible, to draw useful conclusions from silly scenarios.
Yeah, the whole GLUT scenario is really pretty silly to begin with, so I don’t exactly disagree (as you’d say) . Perhaps the main lesson from here is that it’s rather difficult, if not impossible, to draw useful conclusions from silly scenarios.