<html><head></head><body>Congratulations, all of you.<br><br>You manage quite well what hasn't happened before: Making this list irrelevant. The forums didn't quite do that. But your spammy posts that flood everybody's mailboxes do. <br><br>I bet quite a few reasonable people would have dropped from the list by now. <br><br>I honestly don't care about whether you think if a simple optional operator ruins your true faith or will save us all. <br><br>Just stop the spam battle and by Jove stop reposting messages that actually managed to miss the list to keep fanning this flame war.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 April 2022 04:24:49 CEST, zxq9 <zxq9@zxq9.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre dir="auto" class="k9mail">I'm assuming you meant your response to be to the list but maybe missed<br>that in a rush to respond (I know, things can sure get heated when<br>someone is wrong on the internet!).<br><br>On 2022/04/26 3:29, Austin Ziegler wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 2:23 PM zxq9 <zxq9@zxq9.com <mailto:zxq9@zxq9.com>> wrote:<br><br> On 2022/04/26 0:45, Austin Ziegler wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;">That said, it took me a *long* time to understand `=:=` because<br></blockquote>it’s a<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;">complex, compound sigil (not used _that_ frequently) that I’ve never<br>seen in any other language (and I know quite a few). To _me_,<br></blockquote>`^Value -><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;">…` is clearer than `NewValue when Value =:= NewValue`. But that’s me.<br></blockquote><br> Sorry, but no.<br><br><br>Sorry, but you don’t actually get to tell me what I think is clearer. Full stop.<br></blockquote><br>I get to point out when your argument leans on an un-idiomatic construct<br>and demonstrate how the idiomatic way makes this a non-issue at its<br>root.<br><br>Did you even read what I wrote? I gave an idiomatic example.<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">As I said, I don’t really care about this EEP. I do care that people have been arguing this emotionally (while pretending not to do so) and have taken sideswipes against other languages that have made different choices.<br></blockquote><br>Emotional? The only emotion I'm feeling right now is mirth, buddy.<br><br>Me: [points out how your example makes no sense]<br>You: STOP BEING EMOTIONAL!<br>Me: OK, bro. [chuckles in Erlangistani]<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">The Erlang core development team has expressed some interest in this EEP. Wouldn’t it be more productive to take it up with them on the forum, and provide them actually *useful* arguments?<br></blockquote><br>The CoC bans those of us who disagree with the DIE and ESG religion<br>from participating in the forums. So, no.<br><br>I mentioned all this before.<br>You never read what I wrote.<br>That's been a theme in this super weird thread.<br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">It’d be more fun than the soliloquizing that I’ve seen so far.<br></blockquote><br>Sorry, you're going to have to use fewer $2 words; we conservative<br>minded folks are too stupid to understand what you're saying if it<br>doesn't involve cheeseburgers, pro-wrestling or Orange Man metaphors.<br><br>-Craig<br></pre></blockquote></div><div style='white-space: pre-wrap'><div class='k9mail-signature'>-- <br>Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</div></div></body></html>