[Ruby] Top Posting (was: regex question)

[Dave Myron]

This "netiquette" has always seemed weird to me.

It's readability versus accessibility, right? If you were just jumping into
a long thread then I can see why top-posting would make following the
conversation difficult. But, in an actual conversation, the recent addition
to the conversation is more important (and deserves the top billing). It
sucks to have to scroll to the bottom of a long back-and-forth just to see
the two-cent reply.

Do you like having all of your old emails at the top of your inbox or at the
bottom?

Dave


-----Original Message-----
From: ruby-bounces at zenspider.com [mailto:ruby-bounces at zenspider.com] On
Behalf Of Ryan Davis
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 1:30 AM
To: Seattle Ruby Brigade!
Subject: [Ruby] Top Posting (was: regex question)

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A: Yes
Q: Is top-posting bad?
  - Derek Milhous Zumsteg


On Feb 12, 2007, at 10:35 AM, Neil Moomey wrote:

> I like the O'Reilly book "Mastering Regular Expressions" but it's  
> not the
> best quick reference book.  Regular expressions are the same with all
> languages so don't be put off if it's not a Ruby book.
>
> Neil
>
> On 2/12/07, shaners becker <veganstraightedge at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> i have two questions about regexs:
>>
>> 1. what's a good starting resource for learning regex? someone told
>> me about some ajaxy site that teaches the beginning in and outs of
>> regex. anyone know of that?
>>
>> 2. just in textmate, i'm trying to do a find and replace that needs a
>> regex. its an xml file and i want to remove all of one type of tag
>> and its contents. say the tag is "book":
>>
>> <book>moby dick</book>
>>
>> how do i say find all: <book>...anything here...</book>?
>>
>> thanks
>> shaners
>>
>>
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