[srdev]

blahedo's point was that the technique was not fundamentally a problem from a robustness point of view, and I disagree with that point. It is a problem, and I was pointing that out.

Your point seems to be that since Hacker News is a "hobby project," that we may forgive sacrificing a bit of robustness to make the programming exercise more pleasant. That point was not clear to me from your original posting. Rather, the point seemed to be that the technique was good because it was clever and fun, and I disagreed with that sentiment.

PG seems to be saying elsewhere that it was used as a rapid prototyping technique. That seems to be a fair justification of the technique, in my estimation.