From: Michael Sokol Date: 2011-06-05T00:55:26+09:00 Subject: Re: CORE - Altering Behaviour of "each do" (default param "item") --4dea555a_1e7ff521_147 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline I really wonder what that "Dr. Lizardo" ( ;)) is trying to achieve. Is he legitimately, in his own way, trying to explore the language and grok each and every edge-cases? That's what I thought at first. I didn't approve the way he answered to people helping him (very rude most of the time), nor the way he exposes his questions. But wow, that encyclopedia entry says that the article has been tagged since 2006! Could it be a real internet troll we have here? On samedi 4 juin 2011 at 11:17, Bill Felton wrote: > > On Jun 4, 2011, at 11:10 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 11:50:00PM +0900, James Gray wrote: > > > > > > http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Ilias-Lazaridis > > > > Wow -- his own encyclopedia entry. > > > > It'll be difficult for me to refrain from replying, because I almost > > never check who says something before responding. I have cultivated the > > habit of responding based on content rather than name, for the most part. > > > > It's pretty clear that, in this case, I should make the effort to do > > otherwise. Thanks for the informative email, James. > > Chad, you might want to see if your mail client has the equivalent of a killfile. Amusingly enough, I 'killfiled' Ilias this morning before the latest kerfuffle. > James, thanks for a careful and well-thought-out response. > > All other issues aside, "Dr. Lizardo" appears to want to use a language that is almost but not quite completely unlike the language he has insisted he 'must' or 'strongly desires' to use. Certainly he is after a 'Ruby' that is nothing at all like the Ruby we know and love. > One must wonder why... > > regards, > Bill > --4dea555a_1e7ff521_147--