From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-12-16T06:24:33+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expressions question

On Dec 15, 2005, at 3:07 PM, Neil Stevens wrote:

> James Edward Gray II wrote:
>> Hey, can we keep this to a discussion of language features and stop
>> insulting large portions of the Ruby community?  Thank you.
>
> You are the one who first suggested that more people are using these
> special-case magic variables so wantonly in their code, by bringing up
> what you said in the Ruby Quiz.

Since you are educating me about the joys of MatchData, allow me to  
educate you on the differences of what we both said.  I explained  
what I have seen and made statements about how common a given  
practice is.  You were, and still are, insulting people you know  
nothing about.

> Yeah, it's clear that regardless of how nice the Ruby language is,
> nothing can bring up the quality of the average Internet programmer,
> unfortunately.  Better tools don't make a better carpenter.

You are rude for absolutely no reason and you have ceased to add  
anything to this conversation.  I'm done trying to reason with you.

James Edward Gray II