On Thursday 22 Oct 2009 07:39:41 Uri Bruck wrote: > Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Hi Dov! > > > > On Wednesday 21 Oct 2009 16:46:51 Levenglick Dov-RM07994 wrote: > >> Hi, > >> Thanks for the comments. > >> > >> 1. I will add use warnings. I don't think that it is worth the time to > >> investigate if it runs on 5.005 or below. I'll add that as well. > >> 2. I am > >> not happy nor unhappy, just unaware. > >> 3. I was unaware. I'll do that > >> 4. Damn IDE! > >> 5. The function is public and I didn't see the need to limit the user > >> 6. Please explain. I don't understand > >> 7. Why is regex injection bad? I use it for matching the files. > > > > I find it very hard to reply to that because my comments are in that > > order in the bottom of the document quoted below, and I'll need to scroll > > up and down or open them in a new window. > > Or copy&paste them in your reply to the place you consider most > appropriate and then reply. > Probably wouldn't've taken much longer than writing the reply you did > write. Y'know, the edicai-shenal one.
Possibly, but I prefer to educate people on that so they (and the other people witnessing this on this list) will know better than to do it next time, and so I'll have an easier time next time. Teach a man to fish and all. To quote George Bernard Shaw: <<<< The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. >>>> ( http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pragmatism - which I admit is my creation) Sometimes you have to be a bit stubborn. > > > This is a good proof for why top-posting is > > evil: > > Doesn't prove a damn thing and evil is much too strong a word for this. > A minor inconvenience for some people at worst. > Well, it may not be a proof of deduction in the mathematical sense, but it's a case where this was problematic, which adds to the inductive evidence against top-posting.[1] What if I was using a text-based mailer - mutt, pine or worse (?)? What if I were sight-impaired or hand-motor-impaired? I believe Omer (Zak) can further enlighten us on the accessibility aspects of this situation and I believe that in general inline posting is both more usable and more accessible than top-posting. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< [1] - while Mathematicians tend to reject logical induction (i.e: proving a rule based on a lot of individual occurences) as a methodology of proof (e.g: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldbach%27s_conjecture ) , it is necessary in other fields of science, including Physics. We are unable to prove that the force of gravitation works on every two particles with masses based on more basic assumptions, but we have to assume that this is the case, because that's how we have observed it up to now. And in some fields of science which work at a higher level of abstraction, it is often possible to assume that generalisations hold *in general* despite some evidence to the contrary. For example, we can claim that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy is *generally* effective despite the fact that some patients were not fully helped by it. >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Regarding the use of the word "evil" - I did not mean it in the traditional sense of being "really bad" and "anti-life" (or negating human biological needs as is the Neo-Tech definition), like saying that Genghis Khan was an evil, immoral (and unethical) man. Instead, I meant it in the following sense as used by Hacker: http://catb.org/jargon/html/E/evil.html This is similar to the fact that the word "mean" originally meant "cruel" but now often means something like "Don't be mean!" as for "Don't be too strict.", or "Please compromise a little.". Hackers sometimes say stuff like "XML::Simple is evil." or "Tcl's way of using strings for closures, instead of say S-expressions, is Evil with a capital E.". I apologise if anyone here was too offended from me using this adjective. Regards, Shlomi Fish P.S: I've got a little off-topic and carried away with this post, so feel free not to respond, respond in private or to a different mailing list - perhaps: http://www.hackers.org.il/ . -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Funny Anti-Terrorism Story - http://shlom.in/enemy Chuck Norris read the entire English Wikipedia in 24 hours. Twice. _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
