Herfried K. Wagner said:
Maybe Cor is not always "professional", but he contributes a lot to this ng.
You come in and play the troll. Shame on you.
First of all, I did not come here to troll.
In my original post I said:
misusing a For loop.
It was you that posted, less than an hour after my original post:
other
people there if you do not contribute to the ng."
You apparently read my message as a flame. Cor's code didn't work. That is
a fact. It is undisputed to this point. Code that doesn't work isn't
helpful even though that was the intent. Do you dispute this? For loops
aren't very suitable for iterating dynamic data structures that will change
within the iterations, so that's what I meant by 'misusing a For loop'.
Iterating the collection from back to front using a For loop merely a means
to get a poorly chosen looping structure to work in this situation. These
are technical issues that are open for legitimate debate.
You accuse me of being a troll. I had no intention to argue for the sake of
argument or otherwise discuss anything beyond the technical issues. I did
not shout, and I challenge you to show where I did. You didn't even give me
an hour to post a solution. Who the hell do you think you are? Being an
MVP doesn't give you any authority to dictate the direction of the
conversation. You also neglect to recognize who has done the majority of
the abusive name calling in this thread, going so far as to condone and
support their behavior yourself. You and everyone else here has also
conveniently chosen to ignore the code that I posted and its merits,
choosing instead to jump on the bandwagon of flamers. I'm not pleased with
how this thread has turned out. How many trolls post real code, that works,
and is at least as good as anything else posted? I stand by my code, and if
you would've given me a chance to post it before you and others started
attacking, maybe you could see that.
Instead of focusing on the problems in his own code, Cor demanded that I
post something immediately and reposted this demand repeatedly, all within
two hours of my original post. I had only intended my initial message to
serve to point out that the code wouldn't work until I had a chance to post
an alternative, and my reference to 'padawan' wasn't intended as a slam but
in jest. Apparently you and others took this as a flame. But an honest
reevaluation might see that this may have a different intention than what
you assumed to be the case.
You also chose to neglect my response to Scott, in which I corrected the
information he suggested and explained why it wouldn't work. Cor, Fergus,
and Nick continued to challenge me to post an alternative, again within a
mere two hours of this post.
No one apparently took issue with any of the technical information I
provided in my original posts to Cor or Scott or even offered any challenge
to what I said and merely resorted exclusively to personal attacks and
challenges. Cor's code wouldn't work for many reasons, although he thought
I was referring to typographical problems, this was purely an inaccurate
assumption on his part. Rather than directly point out the error, I chose
to point out the nature of the problem rather than specify the exact problem
itself, which I thought was a better way for him to discover the problem on
his own. Had he actually tried his own code to reveal the error, he might
have seen the legitimate problem I had raised.
Your MVP status doesn't convey you any authority to misrepresent the nature
of this thread and your complicity in condoning the abuse by cheering them
on. You don't deserve any respect for that, regardless of what other help
you provide here.
But you've killfiled me, right?
That's OK. I no longer have any expectation of any measure of fair
treatment from you. You can dismiss me as a troll, regardless of the facts.
