Re: Hijacking a thread: (Was: Why is implicit and explicit 'nil' treated differently?)

[Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@...>]

On Sunday, April 19, 2015, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2015-04-19 14:27 GMT+02:00 Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@tiscali.it>:
> >
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Please, don't highjack threads like this (it's not the first time you do
> > it).
> >
> > If you want to begin a new thread send a new mail message to the mailing
> > list with a new subject, don't reply to another thread changing its subject.
>
> It is unfortunate when a post amounting to the policing of netiquette
> itself commits a solecism. In this case, the post I have quoted contains
> literally a pair of brackets enclosing three dots. Clicking on it dos not
> reveal extra text, so it is not possible to tell from the post alone which
> previous post is being criticised.

...nor was it possible to do so from reading the thread. I could only guess that he meant me and my diversion into __index. It wasn't disrespectful or *that* off topic. 

-Andrew