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Language is tricky — Descriptive versus Selective Identifiers

March 27, 2023 Tom Leave a comment

Here’s a puzzle. Does a “wrapped URL” refer to the wrapped result, or the original URL input that was wrapped?

Language is our tool, but occasionally we can get confused or go in circles over semantics. Find the story of this brain-bender, and how we clarified it, here.

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