From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-12-02T13:35:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Simple iteration in a function problem

On Dec 1, 2006, at 8:32 PM, dblack@wobblini.net wrote:

> Hi --
>
> On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Paul Lutus wrote:
>
>> Blake Miller wrote:
>>
>>>> Posting bits and pieces of code, but never a short working  
>>>> example, is a
>>>> sure way to assure that this thread will go on forever.
>>
>>> Why can't it be a string, I can use whatever I want to identify an
>>> object.
>>
>> 1. I can see why this thread goes on so long -- instead of meeting my
>> request, you just changed the subject.
>
> Paul, could you please stop being so confrontational?  Your standards
> are no higher than those of a lot of very accomplished programmers,
> authors, and teachers on this list who do not find it necessary or
> productive (neither of which it is) to adopt the kind of unpleasantly
> didactic -- or, at many times, simply unpleasant -- tone that you
> favor.
>
> It seems to me that you might well have interesting things to say
> about Ruby and programming in general, but right now they're smothered
> in a mass of hostile, judgmental rhetoric.  My advice would be just to
> jettison it.  If you want someone to clarify something, just ask them
> what they meant.  Don't add a lecture about their behavior.
> Similarly, if you think someone has done something inadvisable, just
> say so.  Don't start with, "What? You did THAT?!" (or equivalent).

Yes, please.

James Edward Gray II