>>>>> "Shawn" == "Mr Shawn H Corey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Shawn> Oh, I get it. When I said 25 years, you thought that I meant 25 years Shawn> with Perl. No. Shawn> Sorry, about the confusion. No confusion. Shawn> I have programmed in many different languages and have never seen a Shawn> closure. Then you've used a different set of languages from what I have. Shawn> All programming languages are Turing complete, so it is possible to Shawn> create a closure in any language; The second part doesn't follow from the first. Perhaps you don't understand "closure" well enough to be commenting on it. Shawn> meaning that if they were useful, they would appear more Shawn> often. Also an unsubstantiated conclusion. You're just leaping from one thing to the next here, and getting deeper in pure speculation instead of justified facts. Shawn> And I have never seen one (except in academia). Then you've had a pretty narrow bit of experience for being around for "25 years". Shawn> And OK, you're not mean; you just have a mean sense of humour. No, I don't think it's humor. It's just calling BS where I see it, like the message I'm reply to here. People may laugh, but the intent is communication. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
