Orton, Yves wrote: > Rodent of Unusual Size on 03 March 2004 19:17 said >> A. Pagaltzis wrote: >>> >>> Offtopic rant: why do people want/use OO for things like these??? Why not >>> simply have a Foo::mkconst() ? >> >> response rant: why do people always assume that they know better what is >> being attempted than the person writing the code? there's > a reason i'm using o-o; let's accept that and leave it at that. > > So when someone helpful like Aristotle sees something that looks like this he > homes in on it. Dont forget he offered help for free
and don't forget that he answered the question and i thanked him for it. > The useful answers are typically like > > "Why on earth do you want to do such a silly thing. USE THE FRIGGIN REGEX > ALREADY." there are people who ask questions because they don't know the answers and are lazy; and there are people who ask questions because they don't know the answers, haven't been able to find them, and want to learn. i find it is an all too common thing in established communities for those with experience to forget that they too were once ignorant. if the exchange had gone something like the following, it would have been different all round: aristotle: is there a reason you're using o-o rather than foo::mkconst? rous: yes. there's a difference between asking someone if they know what they're doing -- and assuming that they don't. > , and part of that help involved questioning why you are doing something that > looked dumb. actually, i believe the rant and the answer were unrelated. -- #ken P-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Ken.Coar.Org/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand and shrimp!"
