Handling 3 operands in an expression without raising an exception

Neil Cerutti neilc at norwich.edu
Mon Sep 30 08:56:44 EDT 2013


On 2013-09-30, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > You actually need the tool that was used on King Edward
>>>> > II.
>>>
>>> To be clear, Mark, you are calling for ?????????? to be
>>> tortured to death with a red hot poker, yes?
>>>
>>> I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that such a
>>> suggestion is outside what people generally consider
>>> acceptable on this list.
>>
>> It's reassuring that even a guy like Nikos has his White
>> Knights.
>
> Ahoy! Ahoy! Check!
>
> Actually, it's more that even those of us who will put him down
> verbally don't actually want to see him tortured to death. I've
> strongly recommended that he either shape up or ship out (learn to
> code or get out of programming as a business), but that doesn't in any
> way mean I would rejoice at his death.

This makes perfect sense. It's be sort of like being one of the
police in Dallas protecting Oswald; it's from a sense of duty,
rather than a generally sincere love.

> But he is annoying. Very annoying. And I completely understand
> the frustration that leads people to want him to suffer great
> pain.

I don't want him to suffer great pain, but it would please me if
it were possible to annoy him in some way. Like maybe with the
sound of a mosquito. BZZZZ! BzzzzzZZZZZ!

-- 
Neil Cerutti



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