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- From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON)
- Subject: Re: New C++ type: boole
- Message-ID: <9220912.5897@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU
- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
- References: <DOUGM.92Jul26200316@titan.cs.rice.edu>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 02:13:18 GMT
- Lines: 66
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- dougm@titan.cs.rice.edu (Doug Moore) writes:
-
- >It has been suggested in one piece of mail that my response to Mr.
- >Henderson's criticisms were "antagonizing", and in another piece of
- >private mail that I accused him of lying.
-
- I think that my original criticisms were probably fairly "antagonizing";
- I certainly did not view your reply as accusing me of anything (save
- not having a good enough argument :-)
-
- >It was my intent to attack Mr. Henderson's arguments, which I found
- >wanting, and not Mr. Henderson himself. I respect his, or anyone's,
- >right to disagree on matters of taste. But I felt that all of his
- >arguments were matters of taste, not "holes" in a proposal.
- >
- >I certainly did not mean to accuse Mr. Henderson of lying. I can only
- >assume that the correspondent refers to that point at which I suggest
- >that, while Mr. Henderson says he finds the proposal flawed, he really
- >just prefers not to have a boolean type. I did not mean to accuse Mr.
- >Henderson of duplicity in this. I meant only that the "flaws" he
- >presented were more in the nature of stylistic objections, most of
- >which could be applied to any proposal for a boolean type. I'm sure
- >he honestly considered his list to be a list of flaws.
- >
- >So, I apologize to Mr. Henderson, and to the net, for appearing to
- >call him a liar.
-
- Apology accepted. (I didn't find anything in your post offensive anyway :-)
-
- >I still disagree with him. I'll try to disagree more carefully in the
- >future.
- >
- >Doug Moore
- >(dougm@cs.rice.edu)
- >
- >This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire
- >civilized world. Your message will cost the net hundreds if not
- >thousands of dollars to send everywhere. You will offend hundreds of
- >people you don't even know. Please be sure you know what you are
- >doing.
-
- Usenet really is a very difficult medium; attempting to communicate only
- in ASCII, we lose the non-verbal cues that provide much of the message in
- ordinary conversation. It *is* very easy to offend people. In actual fact,
- I was worried that I might well have offended you or others in my previous
- post, and I had started to compose the following follow-up:
-
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: New C++ type: boole
- References: <DOUGM.92Jul26151240@titan.cs.rice.edu>
-
- Firstly I think I should appologize for the tone of my previous article,
- which came out much more like a flame than I intended it to.
- I guess I wasn't really being very constructive. Sorry.
-
- dougm@titan.cs.rice.edu (Doug Moore) writes:
- ....
-
- Unfortunately the machine I was working on crashed (twice!) while I was writing
- that, and I started something else.
-
- --
- Fergus Henderson fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU
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