Command Line

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

It occurred to me just now that my earlier followup might also be
misinterpreted -- as being sarcastic. I think smileys are a bit of
a crutch and have been trying to eliminate the most egregious uses
of them from my writing. But if you added a smiley after each
sentence to my earlier response to the above it would not be out of
place.

ObPerl: $last_followup =~ s/(\w+\.)(\s+)/$1 $2/g;

To me, adding those smileys didn't change the meaning of your
comments, so I guess I got it right also without them. But thanks for
the clarification.

 

[Walter Roberson]

:And that's my whole point. Again without mentioning spam, how would you
:justify ignoring anything someone posts simply because of their name? (or
:email, or fake email, as the case may be)

:It
:doesn't mean you have to read every message posted (as you seem to like
:extremes), but it does mean you should be more receptive to another's point
f view, even if you don't agree.

Your philosophy is, if I understand correctly, that one should not
use prejudice (to pre-judge) in selecting postings, because
those one are prejudiced against might have valid points of view.

The truth is, though, that we use prejudice all the time in selecting
what we are going to pay attention to: we have our favorite
newspapers, favorite radio stations, favorite tv stations and shows,
favorite magazines, favorite newsgroups, favorite people, and so on.
Perhaps -ideally- it would be good to give attention to everything,
but it isn't humanly possible: selective attention is a survival
mechanism!


:As a simple example, say everyone
:killfiled Godzilla. Who would that leave to point out her garbage?

Leave replying to her to those who consider doing so to be more
important than other choices they have available to them.

As for me, I can't fight -every- battle: I don't even have time to know
about every battle going on, let alone research them all and form an
informed opinion on them all and contribute to one or more of the sides
in each. So I killfile where I feel it appropriate -- not at the drop
of the proverbial hat, but when it becomes clear that the person
is not amenable to reason.

There are posters out there who are literally insane; there are
posters who are highly delusional; there are posters who are
religious or political extremists. You *cannot* convince these posters
through any amount of reason. You know the expression about
wrestling with pigs... that you just get dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

 

[John W. Kennedy]

The whole idea of a killfile for anything but spam is a bit draconian, don't
you think?

Try following comp.lang.pl1 or humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare
without a killfile to control the freak who is convinced that FORTRAN is
the only programming language worth using, or the psychotics who believe
that Shakespeare didn't write his own plays. Or the unmoderated
"Babylon 5" groups during the period when the show was on, and bitter,
vindictive Trekkies obsessed over Joe Straczynski's blasphemy in daring
to offer a rival to the god of their idolatry.

Be happy that no Ruby user (or -- it could happen -- AWK bigot) has
decided to stalk the PERL groups.

--
John W. Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."
-- Charles Williams. "Judgement at Chelmsford"

 

[Matt Garrish]

Try following comp.lang.pl1 or humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare
without a killfile to control the freak who is convinced that FORTRAN is
the only programming language worth using, or the psychotics who believe
that Shakespeare didn't write his own plays.

Oh come on, everyone knows that Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays... : )

Matt

 

[Uri Guttman]

JWK> Be happy that no Ruby user (or -- it could happen -- AWK bigot) has
JWK> decided to stalk the PERL groups.

we have had our share of lang wars here. nothing too recent but i recall
a few spirited perl-lisp wars that lasted way too long. google will find
those easily.

uri

 

[Sherm Pendley]

Oh come on, everyone knows that Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays... : )

Of course, his real name was B'Kon, and he wrote in Klingon. ;-)

sherm--

 

[Lukas Mai]

[...]

If we have a desired name in the scalar C<$input>, the associated
subroutine can be called using C<$dispatch{$input}->()>.

That should be C<$dispatch{$input}-E<gt>()> or
C<< $dispatch{$input}->() >>. It's parsed as C< $dispatch{$input}- >
()E<lt> now.