From: genew@ocis.net   
      
   On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 18:44:22 -0400, "Bob Barrows"   
    wrote:   
      
   >rja.carnegie@gmail.com wrote:   
      
   [snip]   
      
   >> An advantage of recommending a solution without a cursor is that if   
   >> the question is someone's assignment at college, then you aren't   
   >> being helpful.  :-)   
      
        Why would cursor or not have anything to do with whether the   
   question is assignment-related?   
      
        (Yes, I can generally smell a homework question quite well.  (It   
   is easy; they reek of it.)  I am asking for the general case.)   
      
   >That assumes I want to be helpful to someone doing their homework   
      
        Which is probably the case, actually.  You just do not want to do   
   the homework for him.  I understand that some people have gone for the   
   sabotage approach; that is too much effort for me.   
      
   Sincerely,   
      
   Gene Wirchenko   
      
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