[MacRuby-devel] Weird behaviour for a weird line of code

[Eloy Duran]

I don’t want to discuss this at length, but “clearly an exaggeration” is not necessarily true. This is an international mailing-list, i.e. not all native English speakers. As such it's better to refrain from it and instead use clear language such as your “strongly discouraged, because…”. To me it was clear that those specific words were an exaggeration, but there definitely was some judgement being passed in name of ‘our community’, something which I am not happy to have on this list.

The gist of it is: anyone should be able to ask any type of question and they should not have any fear doing so. Something that newbies can have a hard time with.

Cheers,
Eloy

On Nov 18, 2010, at 3:48 PM, Scott Ribe wrote:

> On Nov 18, 2010, at 3:02 AM, Eloy Duran wrote:
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>> I see no problem with this, as long as you know what you’re doing (which is with almost anything). Nor have I witnessed a community where ‘beat downs’ are acceptable, it’s certainly not this ML. YMMV.
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> While "beat down" is clearly an exaggeration, the assignment inside condition form is certainly strongly discourage in many communities, because it's so easy to type by accident, and sometimes surprisingly hard to notice ;-)
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