| Mel|work |
Yaakov: icke==troll? |
| rindolf |
Mel|work: no, he's not a troll. |
| Yaakov |
Mel|work: No, icke is just... enthusiastic about "channel purity" |
| Mel|work |
k.... |
| * rindolf |
hates when people abuse the == operator in English for "contained in" |
| apeiron |
rindolf, "icke contained in troll"? That's not what Mel|work meant. |
| tarbo |
sure he did, if you make troll a set of users |
| rindolf |
apeiron: what he meant by icke == troll is that icke belongs to the set of trolls. |
| rindolf |
apeiron: not that every troll in the world is icke. |
| apeiron |
rindolf, No, he was asking if icke is a troll. |
| icke |
$icke->isa('Troll'); |
| icke |
(false) |
| rindolf |
apeiron: is-a means "contained in the set of objects with the property of" |
| rindolf |
apeiron: mathematically speaking. |
| apeiron |
rindolf, Okay, so you're assigning the mathematical meaning of == to its usage in a *perl* channel? |
| apeiron |
rindolf, Now who's fiddling with meanings, eh? |
| rindolf |
apeiron: whatever. |
| apeiron |
'whatever' is what those who have lost their argument say. |
| rindolf |
apeiron: whatever. |
| apeiron |
^ QED |
| rindolf |
apeiron: whatever. |
| PerlJam |
apeiron: I thought that's what people who don't care say. |
| apeiron |
PerlJam, If one doesn't care, they wouldn't respond. |
| PerlJam |
apeiron: whatever |
| PerlJam |
;-) |
| rindolf |
LOL. |