Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.karotte.org!uucp.gnuu.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool2.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Message-ID: <1940232.aqSPkdTlGX@PointedEars.de> From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn Reply-To: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn Organization: PointedEars Software (PES) Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:17:13 +0100 User-Agent: KNode/4.4.11 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit Subject: Re: Transposing single and double quotes. Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript References: <4f4e724b$1@news.broadpark.no> <1404347.V9SEqChMir@PointedEars.de> <4f4f41bf$0$6944$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl> <1939442.aqSPkdTlGX@PointedEars.de> <4f509abb$0$6899$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl> Followup-To: comp.lang.javascript MIME-Version: 1.0 Lines: 74 NNTP-Posting-Date: 02 Mar 2012 13:17:14 CET NNTP-Posting-Host: 85c221db.newsspool1.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=ISWRaHUSOd[AX0F2i> Newsgroups are run by people. By many people, not just two of them. All of them are potential readers. >>> […] >>> But "Quod" instead of "Quot" seems to mean: >>> "which is not the case", which makes sense. >> >> Do you mean that the Latin expression as such makes sense, or do you mean >> that it makes sense in this context? > > A false dichotomy. Try them elsewhere. It is not a dichotonomy. It is trying to determine what you meant by that comment. > I mean it makes sense in the context used by Evertjan (in the sense that > it conveyed what he wanted to say) So, the former. > BUT I don't have a strong opinion about which of you is right (until I > read Korpela's response). Which show that you have not been paying attention. > So I am not stating you or Evertjan was right since you both know more > about the subject at hand than I do. You would react differently if you would answer truthfully about this. >> Because if you mean the latter, you >> are mistaken, as is the pseudonymous address-munging author of the >> precursor of your posting (whom I had therefore killfiled long ago, but >> who does not appear to have noticed that). > > And yes, that "pseudonymous address-munging author" was the very same > person: me. No, it was not you. For a start, you are (hopefully) not using a pseudonym. > Feel free to killfile erwinmollerusenet@xs4all.nl if that email address > doesn't pass your naming conventions too. Does that mean this is not an e-mail address either? > Furthermore I noticed you killfiled me when I had to correct the > nonsense you spread in comp.lang.php on a few occasions and you didn't > respond. Those are two fallacies, one of them ad hominem and (by intention) probably also ad populum. Rest assured that you have no clue whom you are replying to. > But it suits me fine: Killfile to your heart's content. > Don't forget your Ninja Turtle's warcry when you are at it. > Or some Star Trek ". I can see that you are not paying attention and cannot be reasoned with, so further consideration of your postings is most certainly a waste of time. > Luckily Jukka Korpela DID explain in this very thread when and why > " gets interpreted as an entity reference. I had already explained it before. PointedEars -- Danny Goodman's books are out of date and teach practices that are positively harmful for cross-browser scripting. -- Richard Cornford, cljs, (2004)