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by pjmlp 31 days ago
C++ literature, it was common all the way back before the standard came to be.

Example, Turbo C++ manual from 1990, 8 years before the standard.

It is no different from several languages having their own meaning for functor, e.g. it has three different meanings across C++, Haskell and Standard ML/OCaml.

Or what mixins mean between several OOP languages.