Rob, buy a one-way express train ticket to hell. On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 15:53, Rob Dixon <rob.di...@gmx.com> wrote:
> On 18/05/2011 22:37, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > >> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 14:25, Rob Dixon<rob.di...@gmx.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> That looks fine, except that all you have printed is a hash of data. It >>> isn't blessed and so it isn't an object. >>> >>> Please grow up and ask Perl questions. It looks to me as if you are as >>> silly as each other. I certainly wouldn't employ either of you. >>> >>> I also wonder if you 'Kenneth Wolcott' and your friend are the same >>> person. Since your name sounds English you embarrass me: the vast >>> majority of Englishmen are far more professional than yourself. >>> >> >> Wow. My name is Ken Wolcott. >> >> I was posting in the behalf of a real colleague whom I will not share now >> to >> spare him this grief. >> > > I doubt that your name is Ken Wolcott. Your original post said: > > A colleague claims that he made no changes, code worked yesterday >> and doesn't today. >> >> He is not using OO Perl. >> >> I have asked him for a small code snippet that reproduces the error >> (I'm sure he is unwilling to show the entire code!). >> > > And now you try to persuade us that: > > > We both work at a company which I will not share now because I do not wish >> to harm my company by looking so foolish as to post to this list. >> >> He has never posted to this email list previously. His code itself is >> strictly non-OO even though he is calling an OO Perl module. >> >> We did not wish to expose the entire script to the entire world. >> >> I'm sorry if both of us appear so incompetent to you. >> >> Neither of us are experts at Perl. >> > > I am not impressed by your concern for your 'friend'. Originally you > ridiculed him; now you are concerned for 'his' reputation and that of > your 'company'. > > It is clear that neither of you are proficient at Perl. But, more > importantly, you are both unable to ask for help and be honest about > your situation. > > > But I will probably not post here again although I will probably read the >> posts. >> > > You are always welcome to any help that we are able to offer here, but > please look first at your character issues before you try to write > software. We are quite happy to accept innocent failure, but as long as > all we have is lies to work with you cannot be productive, no matter how > hard we try. > > > Thanks for your help, although it was not very helpful. >> > > You are welcome to whatever we could offer you. But it is often > difficult to establish the true problem, even when the poster is telling > the truth. > > Tell us your real name, and describe your problem. I promise we will try > to help. > > Rob Dixon >