On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Steve Holden <[email protected]> wrote:

> Victor Subervi wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Ben Finney 
> > <[email protected]<ben%[email protected]>
> > <mailto:ben%[email protected] <ben%[email protected]>>>
> wrote:
> >
> >     samwyse <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> writes:
> >
> >     > I inherited some code that used bare excepts *everywhere*.  There
> were
> >     > about 4K lines of code, IIRC, and I think that they were more
> except
> >     > clauses than elses.
> >
> >     Visual Basic programmers will learn how to write “ON ERROR RESUME
> NEXT”
> >     <URL:http://www.vbinfozine.com/a_onerror.shtml> in any language put
> >     before them.
> >
> >
> > Yet another example of children belittling others to make themselves
> > feel important.
> > beno
> >
> So turn the mirror in yourself, and ask yourself why you just made that
> comment? It takes all sorts to make a world, and we all need to run
> along. Surely it's easier to ignore that kind of stuff than to
> perpetuate it?
>

Perpetuate what? To quote a favorite Ch'an (Zen) Buddhist scripture...
"Why act? Why not act?"
beno
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