Discussion? What discussion? Talk about missing the point. The entire essense of this thread was nothing but a bunch of hypocritical whining. Anyone who likes to flame on Fark and Slashdot has thick enough skin where being called a "fool" shouldn't even register. I guess that you think that this form of posturing is a way to become popular here, but frankly, its annoying as hell.

Its this kind of bullshit (the kind of bullshit where people are more concerned about this site or their reputations on this site rather than the content of this site) that make people like Abigail leave. Its this kind of bullshit that make many of the heavy-hitters in the perl community avoid this site like the plauge. You posted some code that you didn't think through/test thoroughly, and you were called out on it. Its happened to most of us here. Its happened to me several times. So, you got offended by the way you were called out on it? Get mad at at the person all you want, its your right. Send them an angry email or a few angry /msgs. But, there sure as hell isn't any reason to post a root node about it. Get over yourself. FYAD.

In reply to Re^4: A modest request of Merlyn by jryan
in thread A modest request of Merlyn by delirium

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