In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.

It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.

Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

Let us be charitable, and call it a misleading feature.

I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.

The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.