The Right Approach to Exceptions

[Regan Heath]

On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:04:59 -0000, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> On 2/19/12 4:00 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

>> Seriously, how is this not *already* crystal-clear? I feel as if every  
>> few
>> weeks you're just coming up with deliberately random shit to argue so  
>> the
>> rest of us have to waste our time spelling out the obvious in insanely
>> pedantic detail.
>
> It sometimes happened to me to be reach the hypothesis that my  
> interlocutor must be some idiot. Most often I was missing something.

I get the impression that you find "Devil's advocate" a useful tool for  
generating debate and out of the box thinking.. there is something to be  
said for that, but it's probably less annoying to some if you're clear  
about that from the beginning. :p

Regan

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