[quote user="paperwing"]If they let user code define methods on basic types, then in big codebases it would be hard to track down and maintain exactly what methods were defined on which type, because the methods would be distributed among many packages. Imagine what would happen if you want to import an 3rd party package that defines a ...

[quote user="MiffTheFox"]As an exercise to the reader, try to write a RSS/Atom (yes both formats) parser that works with all the myriad timestamps across a pretty large segment of the web.[/quote] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.servicemodel.syndication.syndicationfeed.aspx That .NET environment you seem to hate so ...

[quote user="Sutherlands"]In this thread or in some magical fairy thread that I haven't read? Because in this thread I don't even see a definitive yes before this post.[/quote] In this thread it was only mentioned once in passing in the middle of the novel. We've discussed it in the past in one of Ben L's threads... ...

Ok I'm going to read Papering's novel and reply to some points. [quote user="paperwing"]you are not forced to handle the error in an error-handling-only codepath (in contrast, try and catch branches enforce exactly this), meaning you can even have multiple errors in flight at the same time (i.e. store them in different ...

I agree with Thunderbird.

I'm not going to have a semantics debate with you. All the sane people on this board are aware that the concept of self-regulation is separate from the set of things that are regulated. [quote user="Lorne Kates"]So the industry is SO self regulated that one of the top webcomic content producers, using what seems to be one of the ...

[quote user="PJH"]It demonstrably does not.[/quote] Don't use the word "demonstrably", that's my word. Especially don't use it when you're wrong. [quote user="PJH"]Why else would it allow, for example, the advertising of fake diets that don't fucking work? Like I've already pointed ...

[quote user="PJH"]You're violently agreeing with me.[/quote] No. [quote user="PJH"]There's no government oversight, and your advertising is something of the wild west where they can advertise lies and get away with it. Thus there is no self-regulation.[/quote] Look, let me ask you a question: is there ...

[quote user="PJH"]They're illegal in my country. Quite why they aren't in your's is perhaps something you could address.[/quote] I like my country just fine the way it is. [quote user="PJH"]"Self-regulation" is:[quote]The regulatory authority could be applied in addition to some form of government ...

Goddamned man. It's Monday morning and I haven't even had my coffee yet.