[steveklabnik]

"register" is often used in the sense boats uses it in like a... let's say English graduate student sense?

Given that "withoutboats" is a Foucault reference, this shouldn't surprise anyone who's familiar with that intellectual tradition.

For a bit more discussion on this, there's a fantastic comment on the Reddit discussion https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/11m0j30/comment/jbflz...

[iviv]

Now I’m interested in the Foucault reference :)

[steveklabnik]

It's right there in the header, "Without boats, dreams dry up."

The full quote is "In civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure and the police take the place of pirates," from his work "Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias."