Re: multiple tails

[David Kastrup]

Simon Albrecht <address@hidden> writes:

> Sorry, Michael, but we generally require complete, compilable examples
> here.

It's more like "you increase your chances for a useful answer a lot if
you provide complete, compilable examples since then anybody inclined to
help does not run out of steam while trying to reconstruct what you
actually were doing."

Most of the people providing the most useful answers have spent
extraordinary amounts of time over the years helping other people on the
list.  If you don't present them with a boring, tedious, repetitive,
fruit- and pointless task before they can even start, you'll increase
their quality of life.  Or they'll increase it themselves by deciding
not to answer.

Sometimes you'll still get an answer, from someone feeling particularly
nice, or someone who hasn't yet grown tired of doing additional work in
order to help, maybe because he feels it impolite to remind people of
providing as much help for helping them as makes sense.  But this kind
of extra eager and polite helpers tends to change or disappear sooner or
later.

So it's better to try not to rely on such eagerness.

-- 
David Kastrup