Jonathan Atzger
Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:18:35 -0800
--- Johan Vromans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As an active non-smoker, I'd appreciate a different name. > > -- Johan I don't mean to be rude, but what does this have to do with Perl? How many times must worthwhile projects break down because people start to allow bickering and irrelevancies to dominate? We are all here (at least I think) because we love Perl. If I were a fundamentalist Christian, would it be right for me to complain about Tolkein quotes buried in the Perl source code on the grounds that they offend my personal beliefs? Personally, I have problems with smokers, too. But I think that "smokers" was merely intended to be humorous and I am not so thin-skinned that I can't deal with it. Please, please do not start a trend of allowing people to start objecting to things because they offend their sensibilities. If someone wants to complain that a particular feature of the regexp engine (for example) is improperly implemented, that's okay. That's about Perl and making it better. Complaining about "smokers" does nothing. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/