Re^13: Scalar context of slice ("list")

Okay. If accuracy is so important, then I guess I should wish you luck in balancing yourself upon your buttocks and thighs, with your torso more or less upright, atop your above-average statured, domesticated, odd-toed, solid-hoofed, herbivorous, ungulate quadruped mammal.

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Re^14: Scalar context of slice ("list") by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 20, 2008 at 06:49 UTC
It's my understanding that you're the one who complained about the inaccuracy (Re^5: Scalar context of slice (myth)) and thus the ensuing pursuit. What I don't understand is how "a list can't be returned in scalar context" compares to "balancing yourself upon your buttocks and thighs, with your torso more or less upright, atop your above-average statured, domesticated, odd-toed, solid-hoofed, herbivorous, ungulate quadruped mammal".	[reply]
Re^14: Scalar context of slice ("list") by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 20, 2008 at 06:47 UTC
It's my understanding that you're the one who complained about the inaccuracy (Re^5: Scalar context of slice (myth)) and thus the ensuing pursuit. What I don't understand is how "a list can't be returned in scalar context" compares to "balancing yourself upon your buttocks and thighs, with your torso more or less upright, atop your above-average statured, domesticated, odd-toed, solid-hoofed, herbivorous, ungulate quadruped mammal".	[reply]