| Mel|work | Yaakov: icke==troll? |
| rindolf | Mel|work: no, he's not a troll. |
| Yaakov | Mel|work: No, icke is just... enthusiastic about "channel purity" |
| Mel|work | k.... |
| * rindolf | hates when people abuse the == operator in English for "contained in" |
| apeiron | rindolf, "icke contained in troll"? That's not what Mel|work meant. |
| tarbo | sure he did, if you make troll a set of users |
| rindolf | apeiron: what he meant by icke == troll is that icke belongs to the set of trolls. |
| rindolf | apeiron: not that every troll in the world is icke. |
| apeiron | rindolf, No, he was asking if icke is a troll. |
| icke | $icke->isa('Troll'); |
| icke | (false) |
| rindolf | apeiron: is-a means "contained in the set of objects with the property of" |
| rindolf | apeiron: mathematically speaking. |
| apeiron | rindolf, Okay, so you're assigning the mathematical meaning of == to its usage in a *perl* channel? |
| apeiron | rindolf, Now who's fiddling with meanings, eh? |
| rindolf | apeiron: whatever. |
| apeiron | 'whatever' is what those who have lost their argument say. |
| rindolf | apeiron: whatever. |
| apeiron | ^ QED |
| rindolf | apeiron: whatever. |
| PerlJam | apeiron: I thought that's what people who don't care say. |
| apeiron | PerlJam, If one doesn't care, they wouldn't respond. |
| PerlJam | apeiron: whatever |
| PerlJam | ;-) |
| rindolf | LOL. |