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somethingsome05/03/20251 replyview on HN

I understand your point, but I still think it is bad from the point of view of language paradigms[1]. Iframes should have not been created in the first place.. You are changing the purpose of the language while it was not made for it.

(yes in my view I interpret includes as a basic procedure)

[1] http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/people/PVR/paradigmsDIAGRAMeng201....


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naasking05/04/2025

There is nothing procedural about includes. In fact, it first appeared before HTML even became popular in Xanadu, called transclusion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transclusion