From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-11-21T15:52:30+09:00
Subject: Re: "stereotyping" (was: Re: Strong Typing (Re: Managing metadata about attribute types) )

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:50:27 +0900, Sean O'Dell wrote:
> On Thursday 20 November 2003 07:58 pm, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>> At least I need to take time to sit down and read your article
>> carefully first.
> This is, I think, the clearest I can make the new proposal tonight:
>   http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?InterfaceContracts
> Perhaps tomorrow I can clean it up some more, when my eyes don't
> hurt as much, and after Ziegler points out how wrong it is and how
> pointless even trying is and how it's all just pointy-haired
> twaddle to be immediately made obsolete by an eval statement.

That's enough, Sean. Everyone knows now that you're a spoiled little
brat who doesn't like being shown that he's wrong or ignorant. You
can stop being an ass and embarrassing yourself.

You've also convinced me -- far more than you ever had before --
that you *don't* know what you're talking about. After all, it's
more important to try to insult me than to actually accomplish
anything. Isn't it?

You've put together multiple proposals, one of which was badly
flawed. I've poked huge holes in the first, and pointed out that
there's a fundamental misunderstanding in the second. Nothing more,
nothing less. Just because you decided to take my poking holes in
your ideas personally doesn't mean that you have to make an ass of
yourself.

-austin
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austin ziegler    * austin@halostatue.ca * Toronto, ON, Canada
software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2003.11.21
                                         * 01.49.03