DIP 1015--Deprecation of Implicit Conversion of Int. & Char. Literals to bool--Formal Assement

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, November 13, 2018 8:47:01 PM MST Nicholas Wilson via 
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Wednesday, 14 November 2018 at 03:02:48 UTC, Walter Bright
>
> wrote:
> > On 11/13/2018 3:50 PM, Isaac S. wrote:
> >> is asinine and ignorant.
> >
> > Some friendly advice - nobody is going to pay serious attention
> > to articles that sum up with such unprofessional statements.
> > Continuing the practice will just result in the moderators
> > removing them.
>
> I read the first adjective as a statement of opinion about your
> reasoning for rejection and the second about the way you have
> dismissed the opinions of others, neither of which are uncalled
> for and certainly not unprofessional.
>
> You would do well to think about that before you post further.

Given how strong the negative response is to this and how incomprenhensible
a number of us find the reasoning behind how bool functions in some
scenarios, Walter probably does need to sit back and think about this, but
using words like asinine is pretty much always uncalled for in a
professional discussion. I can very much understand Isaac's frustration, but
making statements like that really is the sort of thing that comes across as
attacking the poster and is going to tend to result in folks not listening
to your arguments anymore, even if they're well-reasoned and logical. It's
already hard enough to convince people when your arguments are solid without
getting anything into the mix that could come across as insulting.

- Jonathan M Davis