Re: on allowing "int a" definition everywhere

On 28/08/2024 18:31, Tim Rentsch wrote:

Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:
 

Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> writes:
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Not exactly.  There are things that can be done inside a
statement-expression that are not available inside nested
functions or lambdas.

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And you're not going to tell us what those things are.

 
Let me add something to my last response.  I think you're doing
a disservice to the community by always explaining everything
in great detail.  Sometimes, sure;  perhaps even mostly.  But
not always.  People need to learn to think.  You must have heard
the proverb about giving a man a fish versus teaching a man to
fish.  You just keep doling out fish.  I want people to learn to
think so they can fish for themselves.

You don't teach people to fish - you tell them: "There's fish out there
somewhere, figure out for yourself where they are and how to catch them."

On those rare occasions when you've revealed what it is you were talking
about, it has often been something that I would never have figured out,
no matter how much time I spent thinking about it, because figuring it
out would have required me to think in a way that I considered
incorrect. I might have been wrong to think that, but I could not have
discovered my error without you explaining yourself, which you routinely
fail to do

Refusing to explain yourself also serves to shield you from criticism
that your explanation is incorrect, and I think that is it's main
benefit to you. My suspicion that your reasons are incorrect is the
thing that makes it so frustrating to me when you refuse to provide them.

One difference between you and me is that I almost never respond
to a posting of yours that is part of a conversation with someone
else to complain about your answer.  And I don't engage in such
behavior even though I think that what you're doing is worse than
what I'm doing.  I'm fed up with your high and mighty attitude.

Keith's criticisms of your comments seem unlikely to ever produce an
improvement in your behavior, because you clearly don't see it as
needing improvement. However, they do serve to warn other, less
knowledgeable people that they are not as stupid as you try to make them
think they are - your answers are in fact just as incomplete and
unhelpful as they naively appear to be.