shared - i need it to be useful

[Walter Bright]

On 10/21/2018 5:54 PM, Manu wrote:
> Would you please respond to my messages, and specifically, respond to
> the code that I presented to you in response to your broken example.
> Or any of my earlier fragments throughout this thread. I've shared
> quite a few, and so far, nobody has ever produced a criticism of any
> of my fragments. They've just been skipped over.

That's just the problem. You've posted 62 messages so far in this thread, and 
then there's all the ones Nicholas posted.

Trying to assemble the "earlier fragments throughout this thread" is not 
practical for readers, and the endless nature of this thread is ample evidence 
for it. The n.g. is a place to discuss a proposal, not the proposal itself.

This change is definitely merits an actual proposal DIP, so that one is assured 
of seeing the complete proposal, rationale, examples, etc., in one document, as 
well as not being distracted by sidebars, thread drift, and mistakes. This 
document can evolve with corrections and clarifications from the discussion, and 
anyone can get up to speed quickly by just reading the latest version of it.


 > But the one aimed directly at your own most recent sample program
 > addresses your program directly.

My most recent sample program was a direct criticism of one of your fragments, 
so please don't say "nobody has ever ...". I do understand your frustration at 
finding it hard to get your point across, but the problem at least for me is 
trying to mine it from nuggets scattered across 62 posts. Mine it, refine it, 
cast it into an ingot, then present it as a DIP.