in reply to Real Basic Perl OOP Question

I had written a reply here, but going over it I now realize it was incorrect. There's no delete facility, and I don't want to leave misinformation up, so please ignore this node. Or use it as an opportunity to comment on what I should have done rather than write this.

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Re^2: Real Basic Perl OOP Question
by cees (Curate) on Jun 21, 2005 at 22:37 UTC

    People make mistakes all the time. Just a couple days ago I made one here, and was promptly (and politely) corrected. The thing is though, seeing the mistake that was made can still help people, as long as it is marked as a mistake. Someone else may be doing the exact same thing, and not realize that what they are doing is potentially wrong.

    If you look the node where I made my mistake (Re: Image display firefox problem) you'll see that it is clearly marked as being wrong, but people can still tell what I did wrong. You obviously put some effort into your original post, but now it has no chance of ever helping anyone.

    In the future, I would consider leaving your answer in place and either correcting the mistake, or clearly marking it as wrong.

      The thing is, the error I made in the original reply was only made because I thought one of the lines above was not commented out when it was. It was a perceptual error on my part. Anyway, thanks for the advice, and especially the example. I didn't think to just strikeout the text of the original.