Re: RFC: Extending method specializers

Pascal Costanza <pc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ken Tilton wrote:


Slava Akhmechet wrote:
Ken Tilton <kennytilton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:


Like someone just learning to play the piano who falls in love with D
minor, the saddest of all keys, and wants to play nothing else. This
we call a disease, as in to be cured.

Not a natural part of a learning process?


Non sequitor. A natural part of a learning process /is/ getting stuck in
false minima, and indeed one of the biggest contributions of a coach is
spotting and, um, curing these blocks.

What if the coach is wrong? Or is that blasphemy?


The trick is in knowing how to know that the coach is wrong.
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