"gregarican" <greg.....il.com> wrote: > Maybe it's just me but the word "grovelling" just doesn't ring of > newbie friendliness. To each their own I guess. Kind of like the > Smalltalk list where a few respondents are really dry. Someone will > post asking something like "Can I use Smalltalk to do X so that it > talks to Y?" One guy (without pointing to a link or offering a > snippet) just posts "Yes." I guess literally they have contributed. Or > someone calls your house and asks, "Is so-and-so there?" You just say > "Yes" and hang up on them :-)
Or at table - "Can you pass the salt?" "Yes" < a brief hiatus, laden with unfulfilled expectations and no action > "Please pass me the salt" "Certainly - there you are." On the subject of "grovelling" - this refusal to tug, and to condone tugging at forelocks, may be a Southern Hemisphere affliction. Don't like it myself. - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
