Moral debate

[jack]

Hmm, there seems to be too much debate today. gerald_duck, robert_jones, filecoreinuse. And even extended argument about grammar and ice-cream with feanelwa and ewx not-respectively[1].

I guess I'm putting something off :)

In other news: I expected everyone to criticise my phases of the moon, but they didn't. I can never predict what will set people off ;)

[1] Would you distinguish "non-respectively" meaning "not necessarily in the order listed" and "not-respectively" meaning "not in the order listed?" Why didn't I just change the order? Because then I couldn't have this amusing footnote :)

Comments

[simont]

Of course, "not in the order listed" is rarely a genuinely useful concept; it's only helpful in this case because with only two items in a list ruling out one of the n! possible orders uniquely specifies the actual one.

I think we should find a use for the word "disrespectively".

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

True. I was mainly kidding about. And it would generally be more confusing even if it were usable.

Though otoh, two element lists probably are more common than most other sorts put together. And you *might* have a reason for the order (eg. to put "I" after someone else.)

[mair_in_grenderich]

one element lists?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

What about them?

(Note I did say *most* other sorts.)

[mair_in_grenderich]

What about them?

I think we should round them all up and put them in a field.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Are one element lists synonymous with their element?

And mustn't there be one you can't put in the field, because of set theory?

[mair_in_grenderich]

Are one element lists synonymous with their element?

No! What kind of a typechecker do you have?
If it's a list of apples, it's not an apple, even if it's a list of only one apple. It's a list, not an apple. If it's a list of lists, um, well, shhhhh.

Mathmo: "You have a big field, and a little field, and the little field is in the big field - "

Farmer: "Weird".

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

T-J, yo bitch still wearing the pants?
Don't say that, don't say that. Me and my ho are like a man and his dog!
In that order?
Hey, you disrespectiving me, brother? [bites thumb at him]

[geekette8.livejournal.com]

*splortle*

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Was that a good splortle or a bad splortle? :)

[geekette8.livejournal.com]

A messy one. :-)