What's up, RMers?

[kyonides]

Man, it's incredible that trying to help some noob ends up with being accused of being snobbish.
Like really? Are you  serious?

I know I have a strong opinion on a specific programming or logical topic but I have a very good reason to be serious about it. Now that topic turned into a little flame war being waged against me.

As a matter of fact,  Wulfo had discussed that very same issue with a fellow forumer here. It was about defining a method using def inside an existing method. It's one of those things one should learn about Ruby if a given student or hobbyist wants to use the language properly. This actually means that such a thing should NEVER be done at all. Never!

I even provided them with another example, dividing a number by zero. You simply don't do that. It's not negotiable. Hey! You won't chase down all of the mathematicians that warn you against ever doing that.

Oh yes, I knew the OP was a newcomer and I never expected him to get a grasp of it. Thus, I skipped the explanation on my first reply on that specific subtopic. He complained and called a moderator to deal with it. OK, both of them didn't get it. Fine. I left a 4 paragraph discussion on how being a newcomer was not helping him understand how bad the idea was and how Ruby has some "bugs" or logical errors like the one I discussed here on my topic on learning Ruby. Yes, I mentioned the one about including modules in classes or other modules. That's an advance topic for the OP. Wulfo can handle it, I definitely can but not the OP.

One thing is true, I didn't tell him what to do in a specific way to make the window or sprite shake, but he already had an idea on how it's supposed to be.

Before I finish my rant here, I wanna add that I clearly stated that I NEVER called the OP a moron. I simply said the idea was moronic and should not be implemented for his own good. One might say it was kind of a strong stance but I even reminded them of teachers telling their students to never do something bad in programming because they'd kill a  kitten if they ever do it. It's a blatant lie and we all know it but serves as a reminder of what you're not supposed to try out ever.

Really, Millennials and generation Z seem to become quite intolerant whenever people offer them some strong piece of advice or corrects them for a good reason.