From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: reference parameter Date: 1999/10/23 Message-ID: <3149690665020822@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 539699095 References: <380d6fbd@news.vtc.ru> <380F6B74.DFD98A37@ncgr.org> <38109318.E2E698A5@ncgr.org> <3810D446.B7656C4C@ncgr.org> mail-copies-to: never X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 940701865 10120 195.0.192.66 (23 Oct 1999 18:04:25 GMT) Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879; +1 510 435 8604; http://www.naggum.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Oct 1999 18:04:25 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * David Hanley | But if it allows someone to produce working code, what right does someone | else have to try to "correct" them? the same right they have to give false or misleading answers, answers that work only most of the time, or no answer at all. you ask in a public forum, you get whatever people feel like providing at the time, and the rights involved are quite fundamental, so why do you consider _this_ a question of "right"? the "right" I think you favor is the "right" to remain wrong and ignorant and to be protected from having it demonstrated to you. such is not a right; it is a wrong. | There's also an implicit assumption that the "helper" knows more about | the problem than the one trying to solve it. you're implying that when asking for and receiving Perl answers, this assumption does not hold... :) #;Erik