RFC: safe pattern matching for problematic encoding

Martin Geisler mg at aragost.com
Thu Jun 7 10:31:28 CDT 2012


Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> writes:

> On 2012-05-25 20:50, Matt Mackall wrote:
>
>> Now you've wasted another hour+ of my time and predictably gotten
>> nowhere, because there's exactly zero new information in either your
>> message or my response that hasn't been repeatedly presented over the
>> past seven years. That's an hour I could have used doing something
>> useful, or at least spent without elevated blood pressure. In other
>> words, you have successfully trolled me. Pleased with yourself,
>> troll?
>>
>> If you want to do something useful, go work on the VFS layer.
>
> While we're at it, and for the records, I do find how Matt treated
> Martin here totally out of line.

Thanks Adrian.

I've been really disappointed by the silence here since I expected
people to point out that the angry tone is unacceptable. People have
contacted me off-list ("thanks for being brave in the Unicode debate!"),
and while it is comforting, it is still sad that people feel the need to
say this in private.

I brought it up on G+ and when asked directly, people said that the tone
was bad, but understandable:

  https://plus.google.com/108957994038017966408/posts/GgxTNCEm8gC

Apparently the problem was the "before you stop yelling" part, which was
seen as "extremely hostile", even though I continued by stating that I'm
genuinely interested in these cross-platform issues.


I've just been to DjangoCon Europe and the low ratio of women to men in
the community was a hot topic. They are afraid that the tone in their
community (which seems extremely friendly to me!) scares some women
away... I couldn't help smiling a little since the tone in our community
almost scared me away.

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Martin Geisler

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