From: Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com
Subject: Re: string> missing?
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2015 16:35:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twuoo4ow.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <oirlhg0ikeo.fsf@gmail.com> (Nick Andryshak's message of "Wed, 03 Jun 2015 16:53:03 -0400")
>> In what way is any one of the answers the least bit unreasonable?
>
> Since you asked:
>
>> Because they do.
>
> "Because they do" is a non-answer.
The complete answer he gave was:
"Because they do. The cause is lost in history."
In other words: "We don't know", which is a perfectly good answer.
>> The cause is lost in history.
>
> Nonsense.
??????
>> No, I don't agree.
>
> I really don't understand why Eli would say something like this.
So disagreeing with you is unreasonable?
> I think it contradicts his work.
?????
>> That's exactly the point: there's no need to apply the same logic to
>> both cases.
>
> This makes no sense:
It does to me.
You not understanding something isn't the same as it not making sense.
Eli gave perfectly reasonable answers, you just didn't like them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-03 21:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-03 9:05 string> missing? Nicolas Petton
2015-06-03 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-03 15:03 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-06-03 15:26 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-03 15:46 ` Nick Andryshak
2015-06-03 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-03 16:10 ` Nick Andryshak
2015-06-03 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-03 16:50 ` Nick Andryshak
2015-06-03 18:10 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-06-03 19:13 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-06-03 19:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-03 19:34 ` Nick Andryshak
2015-06-03 19:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-03 20:11 ` Nick Andryshak
2015-06-03 20:37 ` Jay Belanger
2015-06-03 20:53 ` Nick Andryshak
2015-06-03 21:35 ` Jay Belanger [this message]
2015-06-03 21:36 ` Thibaut Verron
2015-06-03 22:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-04 5:30 ` Thibaut Verron
2015-06-04 7:44 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-06-04 8:08 ` Thibaut Verron
2015-06-04 15:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-03 22:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-04 2:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-04 6:43 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-04 7:02 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2015-06-04 7:53 ` Gnus & Mail-Followup-To (was: string> missing?) Nicolas Richard
2015-06-04 9:04 ` Gnus & Mail-Followup-To Tassilo Horn
2015-06-04 12:50 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-06-05 17:07 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-06 8:48 ` Nicolas Richard
2015-06-04 4:20 ` string> missing? Thierry Volpiatto
2015-06-04 15:52 ` Nicolas Petton
2015-06-03 21:24 ` Richard Stallman
2015-06-04 15:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-05 17:56 ` Richard Stallman
2015-06-05 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-05 20:40 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-05 21:35 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-06-05 21:53 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-05 22:04 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-06 6:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-06 8:53 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-07 0:28 ` Richard Stallman
2015-06-06 1:52 ` Richard Stallman
2015-06-06 7:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-07 0:28 ` Richard Stallman
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