@SamuraiApology at least in china, the image of scheming unscrupulous eunuchs are was mostly propaganda from the confucian scholar families who competed with eunuchs for influence in the court. the eunuchs were loyal to the emperor more often than these families, although there were exceptions
@joseph_h_garvin I think the real answer to this is it is just not that common that we use a polymorphic `f : (...) -> a` at a function type. Even in Haskell, I don't often see people storing functions in lists/arrays, etc. The only exception is heavy use of the (->) functor maybe
academia stackexchange is wild because you can ask "does anyone have advice on being trans in math academia" and someone will say "you should fly to colorado and go to this panel"