Just curious, not much has changed since the left-pad issue a while ago? Not saying it's wrong though.
> The padding is applied from the start (left) of the current string.
I wonder if they just didn't want the "pad-left" stigma.
Of course, it's really just an opportunity for some weak posturing like "heh, I thought you meant floppy as in the floppy disk, something us grey beards had back in our day ;)."
Oh how I wish this were true; but from what I've seen, the vast majority of arguments in the world today boil down to people assuming that their own definition of a word is the only valid definition of that word :(
(As an example, person A might say "feminism [meaning man-hating] is bad", and person B might say "no you're wrong, feminism [meaning equality] is good!"; and then even though they both actually agree 100% about the fundamental ideas, they end up as bitter enemies, deeply offended by each other, because they can't see that they're actually talking about different things...)
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/01/pokemon-plays-twitch-...
Also, the detailed rejection response to TASbot plays Twitch, remarks that actually running the Twitch client code on the SNES is possible (with SNES having web connection peripherals) rather than just streaming the chat output video through a controller. The submission and the responses are located at http://tasvideos.org/4947S.html if you want to check them.
