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2014-05-31 0:21 GMT+02:00 Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@trms.com>:

> I appreciate your real question, because it gives me just enough excuse to
> be a little bitchy, although this is not directed at you, but to the thread:
>
> I posted a hack that I made so that I could get comments on its value and in
> case it would be helpful to anyone else. I didn't ask for a change to Lua, a
> larger discussion on the REPL or a debate about security.

What does it mean, elsewhere in life, when people engaged in a conversation
abruptly change the subject? Talk about the weather and sports teams instead
of what _you_ want to talk about?

We're just being nice in a conventional sort of way when we could have been
bitchy. We could have said …. — no, I won't spoil the general politeness.