I must also disagree with you, sauoq. Asking for a reasonable explaination of the problem, in words, is not out of the ordinary.

If I recall correctly, in one of my first posts I was also unhelpful in describing the nature of my problem, and fruiture took me to task for it. (That I flamed him afterwards didn't help either, but live and learn...).

Since then, I've been highly verbose in describing my problems, and it's been helpful for everyone: I get my answer sooner, other monks don't have to ask questions or make assumptions, and I get more XP. :-P

I also take exception to your finding PodMaster's tone "arrogant". Are you able to read his mind through the phosphors now? His request seemed very reasonable to me.

I have a coworker in my office/room/whatever, and he's a nice guy, but he drives me mad -- he can't communicate. Good communication makes things happen. Sometimes I have to tell him to speak up, speak clearly, or re-write an email so I can make sense of what he's saying. He doesn't like it, but he'll be a better worker for it.

Maybe his future employers will thank me.

Cheers,
ibanix

$ echo '$0 & $0 &' > foo; chmod a+x foo; foo;

In reply to polite correction is a virtue by ibanix
in thread How to access results of XML::Simple? by matth

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