On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 08:03 -0400, tedd wrote: > At 12:33 AM -0700 10/27/08, Lars Torben Wilson wrote: > >2008/10/27 Martin Zvarík <mzvarik@xxxxxxxxx>: > >> > >> Hi, I am aware of this, but explaining my problem in this case would take me > >> an hour --- and eventually would lead to a) misunderstanding, b) weird > >> solution, c) no solution... > > > >Forgive me if I misunderstand, but it seems like you are willing to > >trade off an hour at the beginning of the project at the expense of > >perhaps many hours of pain later on. Has this thread not already taken > >more than an hour? > > > >I find that often if I have a weird question, just taking the time to > >formulate and write a good descriptive post to explain the problem > >helps me understand why I'm going at it the wrong way to start with. > > > >I remember years ago being faced with the same problem you now have. > >It turned out that the most elegant solution was to change the design > >so that I didn't need to solve the problem at all. > > > >Torben > > I agree with Torben. > > Quite often when I formulate a question for this > group, the answer appears before I send the > question. One needs to fully understand the > problem themselves and preparing the right > question helps in finding a solution. > > Of course, you can do like so many others do and > just don't worry about it -- expose your > ignorance to the group and hope for some magical > code. Despite my own advice, I've done that > several times. That works too, but has it's > downside. Not to necessarily sweep aside the new issue being raised, but there are certainly times when the kind of thing being requested are indeed desireable. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
