>> Is it really necessary to have ask for small complete runnable >> samples... isn't that common mailing list etiquette these days? >> > > Mailing list etiquette eh. > > The pasted screen print of the query and the result it gave - was not > enough? You want me to do more work to satisfy a curiosity that I no > longer have because you still harbour it?
No it's not enough: it's not a small complete runnable sample so people can recreate what you are asserting. You make a statement, people question it, then you never back it up. You try and close the thread down. I've lost count of the threads you've started that have ended like this... > DC gave an illuminating answer and I have clarified that my curiosity > is in seeing a formulation that used the / or ! operators. Did that > part of the conversation pass you by? No - I was talking about how $seq/count(.) will always produce a sequence of 1s (or () as was noted to me offlist) Remember you called me a plonker for saying that? > OTOH your answer and every thing you have contributed since did > nothing to point towards the correct formulation of the query for the > problem stated. Thats ok, but somehow you find it funny that I don't > wish to waste my time talking about that. I find all this nonsense funny. > Funny perhaps but you should not find it strange that I don't wish to > carry on engaging. Stop engaging then. > This may sound patronising (where've I heard that > before) but you can generally be relied upon to proffer a > spectacularly insular perspective to a discussion, so invariably I > don't want to stick around responding to everything you want to say. Don't respond then. > Why do you keep doing it (that's rhetorical hence no question mark). > Do you see a mailing list as a venue for venting your machismo? Look > there are better ways of getting rid of the excess testosterone. Trust > me on that one. Er I'm not sure how to read that one... "getting rid of excess testosterone" sounds like something teenage boys do. That mark twain quote springs to mind, so I really should stop arguing now. -- Andrew Welch http://andrewjwelch.com _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk
