It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality.
Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.
I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.
What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?