[rocktronica]

Learning the minutiae of a language is important, sure, but I can't fathom why you'd willingly introduce unnecessary fragility or overthink into your codebase.

Ideally, your goal as a hacker is to make cool shit. Your goal is not syntax.

[ajacksified]

This is precisely correct. "Don't do x, except in one or two cases where you have to, and then you can hack around it using y instead of x" - rather than "use x by default."

Simplicity should win; but alas, being one of the cool kids is more important.