I hate you all

[Mark Lawrence]

On 08/04/2013 23:51, Walter Hurry wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Apr 2013 08:00:06 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid>
>> wrote:
>>> On 2013-04-08, Walter Hurry <walterhurry at lavabit.com> wrote:
>>>> The fact of Python enforcing it (or all tabs; a poor second choice)
>>>> is *a good thing*, easy and natural IMHO. No need for "end if" or "end
>>>> loop" or "fi". One wonders whether OP is simply trolling.
>>>
>>> If he was trolling, he certainly deserves a prize.
>>
>> I don't think he was trolling. It was a classic-model rant: "I upgraded
>> my dependency to a newer version and all my stuff broke".
>> Commonly provokes anger, largely because many such upgrades do NOT break
>> stuff (eg if I were to switch from gcc 4.5 to gcc 4.7 right now,
>> I doubt anything would break, and my code would be able to use the new
>> iterator syntax in c++11 - pity 4.7 isn't packaged for Debian Squeeze).
>> The OP upgraded across an openly-non-backward-compatible boundary, and
>> got angry over one particular aspect of backward compat that wasn't
>> there.
>
> But wouldn't it have been easier simply to do do a quick sed or whatever
> rather than to spend hours here arguing?
>

Where's the fun in that? :)

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