-----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of David Abrahams
If you want to please your customers, *knowing* what their motivations are, then the motivations are transitive.
No, my motivations are mine, and their motivations are theirs. I refuse to accept -- and you have no right to claim
I most certainly do.
-- that someone else's motivations become mine. Motivation is a personal phenomenon like intention and emotion. The motivated person is the ultimate authority.
It is for me (or anyone else) to judge and make decisions based on what I believe to be the your or anyone else's motivations. I believe what I said, and you can believe that its an irrelevant philosophical point of view, but is certainly my prerogative to apply and make statements of what I believe.
Anyway, this is getting quite silly. For me this is a technical issue, not a moral one, and I really don't want to get drawn further into a philisophical discussion of responsibility. I don't care all that much whether the semicolon is included in the macro, and since I am feeling overwhelmed and somewhat attacked I think I'll probably do nothing.
You feel attacked?
Ooooooo Kaaaaaay.
I don't find this amusing; I find it insulting--even though it wasn't directed at me.
In other words, everything else in service of wiping out some people's silly misconceptions about what macros are. Have I got that right?
I find this insulting and inflammatory. The last sentence doesn't undo the what I perceive to be the tone of the first.
Ahem.
I find this insulting as well.
I am only becoming more convinced to the contrary.
Given the context of this statement, I find this snide.
So, no spaces anywhere else on the line? Try again. ^^^^^^^^^
Again, I find this insulting, especially because you know full well that it is easily fixable. Of course some policies can be difficult to create; this is not an example of one of those policies and is illustrative of nothing.
But -- sincerely -- thank you anyway for going to the trouble to respond to my query and make your thoughts on the issue clear.
Here I believe that you may be sincere, but mostly that you're trying to smooth the waters. At this point, I just find this to be a placating non-resolution to a personality clash that creeps up time and time again. I could chalk up all of these to misinterpretation, but it has happened so damn often with you that I'm wary of it from the start, and I simply won't believe you if you say it wasn't intentional. So, you feel attacked? That isn't surprising at all, given that comments like these--along with a significant history of comments that I find to be either snide, insulting, inflammatory, condescending, or arrogant--can instantly piss me off. I know that I'm not perfect, and I know that many of things that I say in frustration are less than civil. But with you, it isn't frustration, it's a reaction to this kind of thing happening nearly single every time, and each time I get to the boiling point sooner. I tire of it.