Re: suggestion sequence section
- Posted by gertie at visionsix.com Feb 08, 2003
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On 7 Feb 2003, at 21:16, C. K. Lester wrote: > > On Friday 07 February 2003 04:29 pm, you wrote: > > > > Doing that now, simple matches and tests for type. What is your arguement > > against my suggestion to include this form in the language, where it could be > > done faster? > > Well, my questions are: > > 1. would it be truly faster, and if so, how much faster? I don't know. > 2. would it be easier to code? Not if you have the procedure already written. > > > I think the results you want can be obtained, but maybe not the way you want > > > to obtain them...? > > > > That can be said for almost anything. > > Except goto's... ;) Making every line a separate procedure works. > > It's so good to know anything i > > suggest will be shot down... > > The fact is, until I understand more clearly where you're coming from, of > COURSE I'm going to suggest alternate methods/algorithms. The lines of examples i gave were clear enough, which of them did you not understand? Oh, nevermind. > I expect ANYBODY who > asks a question about EUPHORIA on this list would be willing to accept answers > to the positive and/or negative, including suggestions for how to do something > differently than proposed. Since I wasn't clear on what you were currently > doing, I offered a "work around" for the moment. You obviously didn't need that. > Shall I assume in the future that your questions are rhetorical, because nobody > can seem to offer you a pleasant enough answer. You wouldn't believe the crap i get for making suggestions. me: lets add a line to the notice to inform users about the whatever when that happens them: no, i don't want to, you sit in here and answer them when they make the effort to come in and ask you about it every time the service is used. me: there is a bug in services them: no it's your mirc and windows computer <flame war ensues for 6 months> somebody_else: there is a bug in services, i use nix them: oh, there is a bug in servcies, thanks, somebody_else, i'll check it out now! > > saves me from expecting anything till next year > > when someone else suggests it and it's accepted at that time. > > How about in the future you contact someone on the list and ask them to post a > suggestion for you? Then maybe you'll see all your wonderful ideas come to > fruition! Tried that. When it wasn't mangled in the in-between, it was generally accepted. Goto <flame war ensues for 6 months> above. Kat