To summarize, the grandparent comment lamented how it's sad that the modern language has diverged from the code in the article. Someone else pointed out that the code still works. I suggested that the complaint remains valid in spite of that because the language committee's core guidelines prohibit it. Notice I haven't mentioned my opinion at all.

You've responded to that suggestion with seemingly irrelevant comments. Do you see why I'm confused?

For what it's worth, my actual opinion is that the committee is usually wrong/misguided.