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by throwawaymaths 1001 days ago
Deliberateness is not the same as consistency.

You can have well defined standards, that are wildly inconsistent. For example, in python, in file A:

    def get(dict, key):
      return dict[key]
In file B:

    def get(key, dict):
      return dict[key]

Imagine working in this codebase!