Re: static variables

From	Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: static variables
Date	2015-12-02 14:41 +0100
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Op 02-12-15 om 14:11 schreef Steven D'Aprano:
> On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 10:09 pm, Antoon Pardon wrote:
>
>> If you want your arguments to be taken seriously, then you better should.
>> If you use an argument when it suits you and ignore it when it doesn't
>> you are showing you don't really have an argument. You are just showing
>> your preference and making it sound like an argument.
> "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."

So? That doesn't show that we are talking about a foolish consistency here.

This pseudo kind of arguing happens a lot on this list. A lot of the times
one just throws out some proverb as if it is at all clear that the proverb
applies.

Somebody points out an inconsistency and out comes the above proverb, without
much arguments that this inconsisty has advantages over a more consistent
approach.

> Thank you for your feedback. If you ever decide to post here to make
> constructive comments or to help others, instead of just flaunting your
> imagined superiority and whinging and moaning about the rest of us, then
> I'll start to take your arguments seriously too.

Oh come of your high horse. If people use arguments in a selective way,
I can point that out. If you selectively apply an argument so you ignore
the counter arguments when it suits you, that is not a constructive comment
either and you can expect people to point out when that first argument can
be used against you in the same way.

Then going on to complain about non constructive comments seems a bit
disingenous.

-- 
Antoon.

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static variables Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-11-30 17:15 +0000
  Re: static variables Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-11-30 12:38 -0500
  Re: static variables BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-11-30 20:32 +0000
    Re: static variables Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-12-01 12:01 +1100
      Re: static variables Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-12-01 08:26 +0000
        Re: static variables Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-12-01 10:01 +0100
        Re: static variables Grobu <snailcoder@retrosite.invalid> - 2015-12-01 10:15 +0100
          Re: static variables Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-12-02 12:02 +1100
            Re: static variables Erik <python@lucidity.plus.com> - 2015-12-02 01:16 +0000
              Re: static variables Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-12-02 12:24 +1100
                Re: static variables Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2015-12-02 09:21 +0100
                Re: static variables Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2015-12-02 09:34 +0100
                Re: static variables Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-12-02 21:22 +1100
                Re: static variables Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2015-12-02 12:09 +0100
                Re: static variables Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-12-03 00:11 +1100
                Re: static variables Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2015-12-02 14:41 +0100
                Re: static variables Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-12-02 13:48 +0000
                Re: static variables Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2015-12-02 15:07 +0100
                Re: static variables Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-12-02 08:15 -0600
                Re: static variables Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-12-02 14:31 +0000
                Re: static variables Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2015-12-02 16:30 +0100
                Re: static variables Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-12-02 14:30 -0600
                Re: static variables Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2015-12-03 10:06 +0100
                Re: static variables Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-12-02 20:23 +1100
                Re: static variables Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2015-12-02 10:47 +0100
                Re: static variables Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-12-02 12:18 +0200
                Re: static variables Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2015-12-02 11:56 +0100
                Re: static variables Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-12-02 13:30 +0200
                Re: static variables Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-12-03 00:17 +1100
        Re: static variables Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2015-12-01 10:58 +0100
          Re: static variables Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2015-12-01 11:47 +0000

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