On Thursday 30 January 2003 06:49 pm, Andrew Rodland wrote: > On Wednesday 29 January 2003 09:52 pm, Rick Delaney wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 01:54:10PM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote: > > > On Wednesday, January 29, 2003, at 12:38 PM, Smylers wrote: > > I'd also like to point out that ruby has defaults for hashes but > > assigning nil (the equivalent of undef) does not set the default; delete > > does. > > This makes more sense to me. > [yadda yadda]
Just to tone it down a bit: * Yes, that is all my "humble opinion". * Whether or not you liked my proposal, I think there's definitely a communication breakdown between people who are thinking more or less the way I am, and people who are thinking the other. And probably we could figure more things out if we quit talking past each other, as I thinl some people definitely are. :) * Yes, Perl tends to be about letting the user decide whether they want to shoot themselves in the foot -- but it's also about letting them decide when they want to be 'safe' from their own potential stupidity, right? Cheers --hobbs
