Paul White NZ (4/10/2010)
Tom.Thomson (4/10/2010)
yes, that would be an improvement.Then that is all that needed saying. You chose to make the bald statement "This explanation is wrong." - and then ramble on for pages, dodging and weaving, back-tracking, and wriggling to turn it into "incomplete". Laughable.
You continue to distort - clearly quite deliberately. Can you tell me how "it's incomplete. What there is of it is incorrect" means "not incorrect", how it means "incomplete" alone and doesn't suggest "incorrect"? Or even how it is unclear?
Sknox put it better in the post previous to your first one, "This explanation feels a little light. For completeness, it should include the behavior of the LEFT() function as well."
I don't know what you think your input added to that.
The person who had asked for more explanation appeared to like it. That matters more to my than all your venemous ranting,
I, and probably most civilised people regard that sort of deliberate selection of part of a statement to give the impression that something was said that clearly was not said
I have tried to be fair and extract the salient points from your verbose replies. Not my fault if you can't express yourself clearly.
So you continue to distort. I think the statement you mangled was clear, and you deliberately chose to truncate it to give the impression that I had said something which I clearly diod not say.
For the record, I haven't changed my position one iota.
Then why did you say that your change from "wrong" to "pedantic" was a change in position?
Tom