[TuringTest]

> You try to figure out how to do something, you see 3 different solutions and you ask yourself, what's the difference? What's more correct? Will I need one over the other? Are they compatible? Is one way better supported than the other?

I've always wondered this: would it be that bad, if you could easily guarantee that all those formats really are equivalent? (maybe by being able to check a unique identifier of the function to which the expression is going to be compiled).

In the case of this library, the semantics are simple and clear: I have a string object, and I want its contents to be poured on a predefined output device; maybe converting on-the-fly some escape characters in the string to the values of some parameters.

Provided that you don't deviate from this specified meaning, is it that bad that the language accepts any common syntax?

I understand the "being harder to recognize what it is doing", but I think that might be somewhat alleviated by the feature I said above of unambiguously resolving to a single entity in the programming language.