1. So what? It's not always that case that people on HN reply (or must do so) to a question with an answer that exactly answers the question and nothing else. D

1. So what? It's not always that case that people on HN reply (or must do so) to a question with an answer that exactly answers the question and nothing else. Diversions are fine and done a lot by users here, within reason. Otherwise these threads would look and sound like classes in logic or theorem proving, ha ha. We're humans here. 2. Why are you interpreting what he (or she) meant? Let them do it themselves. 3. I qualified my earlier comment as saying that it is not necessarily the best way - up front. 4. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and beholders vary a lot in their tastes, whether programmers or non-programmers. Like the "de gustibus" quote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_gustibus_non_est_disputandum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_gustibus_non_est_disputandu... So chill, pal.