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- From: tanp@ns (Bill Wendling)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Question-2
- Date: 6 Feb 1996 07:25:31 GMT
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- Casey inexplicably wrote:
- } What is the relationship between short, int and long variables?
-
- Short and long variables have been married for the past 12 years. Their
- marriage was a happy and fruitful, or so everyone thought.
- They put up a happy front when out in public, but secretly their marriage
- was falling apart. Short has been seen drinking too much at the corner
- bar while long was having a secret affair with the next door neighbor,
- int variable (no relation).
-
- Well, one night, after a tough day at the CPU, short came home only to
- find long in bed with int. Long looked up defiantly at short as if
- to say, "So?? What are you going to do, you impotent wimp!". Short
- had a break-down. Int quickly put on his pants and headed for the door.
- He wanted no part of this.
-
- Short was over-wrought with grief and overcome with anger at his wife, long.
- He was going to end it all, but he would make the cheating long pay for
- what she did to him. So, after a night of heavy drinking, short got
- a gun and headed back to his house.
-
- In the meantime, int had gone over to long's house to break off the affair.
-
- "We can't go on like this," he said. "Your husband is likely to do some
- thing horrible to us!" He said ironically.
-
- Just then, short burst in. He had really only meant to scare long, but
- seeing int there threw him into a rage! Pointing the gun in their
- general direction, he told them to get into the bit bucket!
-
- "You're drunk!" cried long. "You don't know what you are doing!"
-
- "Get in there!!!" shouted short.
-
- A damp spot formed on the front of int's trousers, short noticed with no
- little amount of satisfaction.
-
- Long and int went to their deaths in /dev/null. Short became a hopeless
- alcoholic with a liver that does him more harm than good.
-
- And that is the relationship between short, int, and long. It's not
- pretty, but it's not a pretty business.
-
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