On 2010-01-06, r0g <aioe....@technicalbloke.com> wrote: > NO! It's a rude way to start a sentence don't you think?
No. When somebody asks a yes/no question, answering yes or no seems quite polite to me. Following the yes/no answer with an explanation of the answer is always nice, and I've little doubt that's what happened. > Just because you're correcting someone doesn't mean you have > to be combative and try and make them feel small. Answering a yes/no question with "no" doesn't seem to me to be combative if the correct answer is indeed "no". But I've lost track of the post you found objectionable... -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! And then we could sit at on the hoods of cars at visi.com stop lights! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list