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TheCoreh | 11 months ago

Meta-question: Given how common :: is in programming languages, and how rare of a typo it is, is it really worth it for HN's title filtering logic to include a rule for automatically replacing it with a single :?

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dcsommer|11 months ago

If the goal is brevity, the rules could first replace 'std::' with nothing.

tialaramex|11 months ago

This only makes sense for C++ where they weirdly namespaced their standard library after popularising the language. But as your parent points out, other languages use this naming style.

nicula|11 months ago

haha I didn't even notice that