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Keith Thompson
Mark McIntyre said:There's little point debating with such people. Give them the
information, explain exactly once why its incorrect to do it
otherwise, and walk away. If still they clean their gun while loaded,
eventually Darwin will come to your rescue.
Natural selection is very much like undefined behavior; there's no
reason to assume it will work to your benefit. The gun he's cleaning
is just as likely to be pointed at your head. More relevantly, you're
like to have to use the code he writes.
Elsethread, I suggested several possibilities for demonstrating that
the "it works for me" approach doesn't work. If *those* don't work,
he may be impervious to reason. Deciding when to give up and accept
this, either by walking away or by somehow preventing his bad code
from affecting anything, is left as an exercise.
But people can sometimes surprise you by turning around becoming
reasonable when you least expect it (see "undefined behavior").