There's the other side of the coin, too, just so everyone can tell I'm cursed with seeing more than one side of situations like this: no one can learn much from "private exchanges". So David's freedom not to publish a one-off ought to be weighed against the benefit that someone may be able to build on the knowledge he or she may have picked up from it.
But I'm making a mountain out of a molehill and I apologise for that. At the same time, I would like to thank David: his contributions are going mostly unrewarded, the occasional show of gratitude is probably a good thing. Lucio. :-) On 12/31/18, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/31/18, Devon H. O'Dell <devon.od...@gmail.com> wrote: >> This “send it to you privately” ethos is a problem on this list. Why not >> make it public? > > I generally agree, but in this case he was forced to spend more work > (cleaning up, and documenting it). > From my experience with scripts of the same length the work to write > it is probably less than the work to clean it up and document it. And > the task has to be done only once anyway, so not worth it (Unless we > get the annotations). > > -- Lucio De Re 2 Piet Retief St Kestell (Eastern Free State) 9860 South Africa Ph.: +27 58 653 1433 Cell: +27 83 251 5824 FAX: +27 58 653 1435
