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- From: tanmoy@qcd.lanl.gov (Tanmoy Bhattacharya)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Off topic post
- Date: 30 Jan 1996 03:11:05 GMT
- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Message-ID: <TANMOY.96Jan29201105@qcd.lanl.gov>
- References: <TANMOY.96Jan27121202@qcd.lanl.gov> <4egtr8$bn0@ns.RezoNet.NET>
- <TANMOY.96Jan28235629@qcd.lanl.gov> <DLyM02.9zn@emr1.emr.ca>
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- In-reply-to: jagrant@emr1.emr.ca's message of Mon, 29 Jan 1996 20:24:01 GMT
-
- In article <DLyM02.9zn@emr1.emr.ca> jagrant@emr1.emr.ca (John Grant)
- writes:
- <snip>
- >
- >I had written `I cannot discuss the code as written because it uses
- >`far' and every conforming compiler has to diagnose this as a syntax
- >violation.' (words to that effect: I do not remember the exact words.)
- >Do you consider that nasty or rude? I do think that this could be
- >considered a `passing reference' strong enough to point out that it is
- >not conformant.
- Yes, I consider it to be quite rude. Also elitist and snobby.
- You refused to even consider the question and wrote it off
- immediately upon seeing the word 'far'. That's like telling
- a little old lady that you won't help her cross the street
- because she is wearing a red coat and you *hate* the colour red.
-
- You know what the keyword 'far' does and you know that it is
- irrelevant to the question or code, so why not just ignore it and
- answer the question. You still could have made a comment about
- the non-conforming code and then continued on to answer the question.
-
- The discussion would have been far more meaningful if you had read my
- post before making comments about what I did and didn't in my post. As
- the reference line does not contain the original post, let me point
- you to <TANMOY.96Jan22085051@qcd.lanl.gov> which is the post you seem
- to be discussing ... and which has little to do with what you describe.
-
- Cheers
- Tanmoy
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