Re: Quoting again (Was: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Config setting to force all math operations to pass through BCMath library.

On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, Kris Craig wrote: > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Sebastian Bergmann <sebastian@php.net>wrote: > > > Am 07.03.2012 11:05, schrieb Derick Rethans: > > >> "3. Do not top post. Place your answer underneath anyone you wish to > > >> quote and remove any previous comment that is not relevant to your > > >> post." > > > > Couldn't agree more, such quoting is really annoying. While we are at > > the topic of etiquette: please use your realname when posting to this > > list. Thanks! > > > > -- > > Sebastian Bergmann Co-Founder and Principal Consultant > > http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ > > http://thePHP.cc/ > > > > -- > > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php This bit is not needed, so trim it! > You guys make a valid point, but I think Pierre does as well. Creating a > stink over a quick one-liner reply seems a bit excessive IMHO. If this is > really such a problem, we need to try and think of a solution other than > just "policing," which obviously hasn't worked. Part of quoting correctly, is to trim out things you're not replying too. And remove signatures as well (any proper client does that!). Which means, everything after the "-- " + return should be removed. cheers, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug