From: Sean O'Dell <sean@...>
Date: 2003-11-21T16:00:30+09:00
Subject: Re: "stereotyping" (was: Re: Strong Typing (Re: Managing metadata about attribute types) )

On Thursday 20 November 2003 10:52 pm, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> 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.

Whatever you say Ziegler.

	Sean O'Dell