On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 06:06:26 +0200 David Maus wrote: > At Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:34:41 +0200, > Štěpán Němec wrote:
>> So your "what stop me to implement a macro" argument is bogus, isn't it? >> I can't really comment on whether using a macro or not is the right >> thing here, but it seems to me you shouldn't base the decision on an >> invalid argument (IOW, from the fact that you even felt the need to >> explain why you didn't use a macro to begin with, it would appear to be >> the case that you would have preferred the macro way). > > "One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand > about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the > very very obvious, as in /It's a nice day/, or /You're very tall/, or > /Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you all > right?/ At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange > behavior. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he > thought, their mouths probably seize up. > > After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this > theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their > lips, he thought, their brains start working. After a while he > abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical and decided > he quite liked human beings after all, but he always remained > desperately worried about the terrible number of things they didn't > know about." > > Douglas Adams, The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy In your "enlightened" style, that would be “曰：‘四境之內不治則如之何？’王顧左右而言他。” 《孟子·梁惠王下》 Still, I'd rather we stuck to the point and expressed ourselves in a way that doesn't imply the other side is either an idiot or a telepathist (although I'd argue that in the currrent context, my quotation is much clearer than yours). -- Štěpán
