I didn't consider this a big deal. It was just meant as a reminder to endeavor to be tactful. I did say that I didn't think that the personal attack was intentional. And I won't further argue the reasonableness of either side.

Update 2: Don't read further unless you enjoy squabbling [ and who doesn't ;) ]. I give merlyn the benefit of the doubt that it wasn't intentional.

However, in the future I will be sure to "cut and paste" any text from merlyn before commenting on it. Silently updating your post to make someone's argument against it look foolish is just childish. This is made even worse by merlyn commenting on tilly's reply without even mentioning that half of tilly's reply was based on a silent edit. Prior to that step merlyn could have claimed that making the modification silently was just an oversight.

Who knows what any of merlyn's nodes in this thread will read at the time anyone reads my node here? Will they just be empty like merlyn has done before with nodes that were not popular. For the record, the original node I commented on said: "if you write to STDOUT, you should read from STDIN, not ARGV". When tilly saw my reply merlyn's node had changed "write" to "prompt" with no other changes that I could see (certainly there was no "update" notice).

Update: I decided that the actual original wording used "write" instead of "print" so I updated this node to reflect that.

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")