On Monday 26 April 2010 06:06:11 erik quanstrom wrote: > > I'd prefer not to narrowly frame things in terms of my own personal > > needs. > > that kind of thinking made linux what it is today. >
You can quit being obstinate now, the threat has been eliminated - sleep soundly, knowing that Plan 9 is once again safe... from being turned into... linux? The. mind. reels. > > Despite my best efforts, I'm still seeing folks inferring or projecting > > the following fallacies: > > > > * I'm being a troll who's objective is to embroil people in arguments > > * I'm being a motormouth who wants nothing more than to gab on and on > > * I'm trying/hoping to change 9fans culture in my own image > > * I'm trying/hoping to change Plan 9 'proper' according to my own notions > > * I'm trying/hoping to convince other people to do work on my behalf > > i believe in duck typing. > Is this your sad attempt at leaving a snarky hook? Your implementation automatically treats all but a very narrow and somewhat arbitrary set of values as type Troll.That's the problem with duck typing. Better to have a message outright fail than to have it interpreted and applied incorrectly. Sounds like you could benefit from some unit tests. The problem is that in this case there's a massive bug in your program logic - your knee_jerk_reaction(), tunnel_vision() and dogma() methods appear hardcoded somewhere to intercept and override all messages that would be better handled by your benefit_of_the_doubt() or think_rationally() methods. No doubt we can play insult-one-another-via-programming-analogy ping-pong all day long, but I'm done with this thread, and the subject in general: the vocal minority who have taken it upon themselves to purposefully sabotage communication have finally become impossible to tolerate.
