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Comment by jhncls

5 years ago

You seem to be hinting to Chesterton's fence [0].

[0]: https://fs.blog/2020/03/chestertons-fence/

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resonantjacket5  5 years ago

Accept in this case I don't really see why you'd want a naive o(n^2) parser when it isn't needed. Well besides for slow loading times.

asadlionpk  5 years ago

Thanks for sharing this, didn't have a name for this scenario.

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