Simple iteration in a function problem

[Pit Capitain]

Paul, could you please stop being so confrontational?

There isn't one word about Ruby in your post. That places you post in a
well-known category, one that should always be marked [OT].

David's post was about your behaviour here on ruby-talk, which is quite
on-topic.

On the contrary, as I just demonstrated.

To me, yours don't seem to be higher, just different.

Regards,
Pit

 

[dblack]

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Paul, could you please stop being so confrontational?

There isn't one word about Ruby in your post. That places you post in a
well-known category, one that should always be marked [OT].

I'll take that as a "No."

Actually my main message isn't to you (it's been pointed out to me
that you're a career troll, doing the same thing in a number of online
forums). It's to the list in general, and especially the newcomers
who might be put off: Hang in there! We're not all like this. You
can get lots of welcome and help from lots of very nice experts here.


David

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DABlog (DAB's Weblog) [2] | Co-director, Ruby Central, Inc. [4]
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[Blake Miller]

Paul, could you please stop being so confrontational?

There isn't one word about Ruby in your post. That places you post in a
well-known category, one that should always be marked [OT].

David's post was about your behaviour here on ruby-talk, which is quite
on-topic.

Yes, but the [OT] can be used to allow filtering posts based on their
relevance to the newsgroup's topic, not the meta-topic of topicality
(always topical).

What does [OT] stand for, and is the appropriate tagging to put it in
the subject? Also, perhaps my post should have been in the Ruby on
Rails forum instead, since I am working on an ROR project, but I thought
it was a general enough Ruby question, so I posted there. Cheers, and
thanks for the help. I think this is the most useful Ruby forum I've
come across.

 

[dblack]

Hi Blake --

(e-mail address removed) wrote:
Paul, could you please stop being so confrontational?

There isn't one word about Ruby in your post. That places you post in a
well-known category, one that should always be marked [OT].

David's post was about your behaviour here on ruby-talk, which is quite
on-topic.

Yes, but the [OT] can be used to allow filtering posts based on their
relevance to the newsgroup's topic, not the meta-topic of topicality
(always topical).

What does [OT] stand for, and is the appropriate tagging to put it in
the subject? Also, perhaps my post should have been in the Ruby on
Rails forum instead, since I am working on an ROR project, but I thought
it was a general enough Ruby question, so I posted there. Cheers, and
thanks for the help. I think this is the most useful Ruby forum I've
come across.

It means "off-topic", and don't worry; it wasn't added in reference to
your original post.


David

--
David A. Black | (e-mail address removed)
Author of "Ruby for Rails" [1] | Ruby/Rails training & consultancy [3]
DABlog (DAB's Weblog) [2] | Co-director, Ruby Central, Inc. [4]
[1] http://www.manning.com/black | [3] http://www.rubypowerandlight.com
[2] http://dablog.rubypal.com | [4] http://www.rubycentral.org

 

[David Vallner]

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Off-topic, either with respect to the mailing list, or to the thread.
Technically Not Proper (tm), but some of the more amusing derailings
(punfights, oldbie ramblings) are a nice diversion, and don't seem to be
bullied off.

Also, perhaps my post should have been in the Ruby on=20
Rails forum instead, since I am working on an ROR project, but I though= t=20
it was a general enough Ruby question, so I posted there.

As far as I know, the RoR forum is for questions related to the Rails
API (Where do I put partial templates, how do I connect different
ActiveRecord classes to different databases, that sort of questions.).
Questions that are "general enough" even if they happen to be in a RoR
context should indeed go here.

Cheers, and=20
thanks for the help. I think this is the most useful Ruby forum I've=20
come across.
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This is the one gatewayed to the newsgroup and the mailing list (which,
I believe, came first), therefore The Big One, so you're most likely to
find the widest reception and the core Rubydom listening in.

David Vallner


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