From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2003-04-01T04:46:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Hard coded newline characters


> >>>Whether or not one is "in the right" is immaterial; belligerence rarely
> >>>inspires others to write code on one's behalf.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> I reread the original post and I cannot honestly see that the original
> >> poster was asking for this.
> >> 
> >> The last sentence of that post is:
> >> "Any quick workaround that anyone can provide would be appreciated."
> > 
> > Hmm.. must've missed that one...
> > 

To be fair, Nobu answered the question in two parts.  I didn't
take his first part answer--the one regarded by some as flip--
as anything more than his concise appraisal of going through
all the ruby modules to accommodate the change implied by:

  David King Landrith wrote:
  > 
  > There are a surprising number of ruby source files that have newline
  > (\n) characters hardcoded as the line terminator--it appears that way
  > more than half of the files do.  Shouldn't these be set to a macro
  > that outputs $\ (or perhaps $,) character.

Nobu's reply, to me, read like he was saying it was an interesting
observation, but didn't seem beneficial enough to undertake.

> > *shrug*   I guess it depends on how you interpreted the initial response.
> 
> I guess so. I found it very rude and felt a rude response was entirely in
> order.

I'm with Austin on this.  I think it was a misperception....
Nobu is one of the few posters on ruby-talk whose messages I
read specifically because he posted - regardless of whether I'm
following the thread - because usually his messages are extremely
authoritative and informative...  If that didn't happen this time
around, I'm sure we can chalk it up as some kind of rare
exception, and certainly not deliberate...  :-)


Regards,

Bill