From Ted.Harding at manchester.ac.uk  Tue Feb 24 15:44:25 2009
From: Ted.Harding at manchester.ac.uk ( (Ted Harding))
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:44:25 -0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rd] [R] Semantics of sequences in R
In-Reply-To: <20090224211436.2e145e95@berwin5>
Message-ID: <XFMail.090224144425.Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk>

On 24-Feb-09 13:14:36, Berwin A Turlach wrote:
> G'day Dimitris,
> 
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:19:15 +0100
> Dimitris Rizopoulos <d.rizopoulos at erasmusmc.nl> wrote:
> 
>> in my opinion the point of the whole discussion could be summarized
>> by the question, what is a design flaw? This is totally subjective,
>> and it happens almost everywhere in life. [...]
> 
> Beautifully summarised and I completely agree.  Not surprisingly,
> others don't.
> 
> [...]
>> To close I'd like to share with you a Greek saying (maybe also a
>> saying in other parts of the world) that goes, for every rule there
>> is an exception. [...]
> 
> As far as I know, the same saying exist in English.  It definitely
> exist in German.  Actually, in German it is "every rule has its
> exception including this rule".

Or, as my mother used to say, "Moderation in all things!"
To which, as I grew up, I adjoined " ... including moderation."
Ted.

> In German there is one grammar rule
> that does not have an exception.  At least there used to be one; I am
> not really sure whether that rule survived the recent reform of the
> German grammar rules.
> 
> Cheers,
>       Berwin

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