Re^3: Inheritance Issues

However, even a minimal working example with the requisite multiple modules would take some significant effort to prepare and debug.

Asking a question here doesn't mean to spend no effort at all beforehand.

That's part of the solution. Probably everybody here has experienced this once - you have a problem, you try to explain it so everybody will understand, and suddenly you come up with the solution yourself. =)

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Re^4: Inheritance Issues by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Jan 28, 2005 at 14:44 UTC
It's called "Explaining it to the teddy bear", after an apocryphal story about a university computer center that required students to explain the problem to a teddy bear before being allowed to talk to a student assistant. According to the story, over 2/3's of the students would sheepishly walk away after explaining the problem to the teddy bear, stopping in the middle, and going "Ohhhh....". This was a boon for the student assistants whose Quake3 time went significantly up. Being right, does not endow the right to be rude; politeness costs nothing. Being unknowing, is not the same as being stupid. Expressing a contrary opinion, whether to the individual or the group, is more often a sign of deeper thought than of cantankerous belligerence. Do not mistake your goals as the only goals; your opinion as the only opinion; your confidence as correctness. Saying you know better is not the same as explaining you know better.	[reply]
Re^4: Inheritance Issues by Dr. Mu (Hermit) on Jan 30, 2005 at 04:25 UTC
There are two kinds of questions asked in SoPW. The first is asked by those desperate only for an answer, due to inexperience, a project deadline, or some other dire need. The second is asked with a longer, more pedagogical view -- not only as a means for solving an immedate problem, but also to elucidate a broader principle or to lay bare an issue with the language. I believe that as we gain more experience in Perl Monks and with Perl itself, we each have a responsibility to take that longer view and to frame our questions for the benefit of the many. I try to do that whenever I can. However, there are still times when a quick answer to an immediate problem is all we can afford the time to prep for. For me, this was one of those times, and -- Laziness being the virtue that it is -- I make no apologies for the brevity of my question. My objective was to get the best answer for the least effort and save the pedagogy for another day when I could afford the time. Even at that, I made certain to include adequate data for someone familiar with the issue (or, as it turns out, non-issue) to respond. What I lacked in detail, I hope I made up for in clarity, and even that required significantly more than "no effort".	[reply]