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- From: bketcham@stein.u.washington.edu (Benjamin Ketcham)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: HELP!!! Converting strings to floats....
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.231116.8398@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 23:11:16 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov11.231116.8398
- References: <1992Oct31.000957.17943@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <1992Nov4.163235.16841@draco.macsch.com> <1992Nov4.180414.24623@brtph560.bnr.ca>
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- In article <1992Nov4.180414.24623@brtph560.bnr.ca> markham@brtph600.bnr.ca (Andrew Markham P205) writes:
- >dnl@convex.is.macsch.com (David Lombard) writes:
- >>
- >> MY_COMMENTS = MY_OPINIONS = NOBODY_ELSES;
- >>
- >>David N. Lombard The first thing we do, The MacNeal-Schwendler Corp
- >>dnl@macsch.com Let's kill all the lawyers. 815 Colorado Blvd
- >>(213) 259-4911 II Henry VI, IV.ii Los Angeles, CA 90041
- >
- >I can see:
- >
- >(MY_COMMENTS == MY_OPINIONS) && ((MY_OPINIONS != NOBODY_ELSES) ||
- > (MY_OPINIONS == ONE_OR_MORE_PERSONS))
- >
- >But to say that MY_OPINIONS = NOBODY_ELSES implies that you have an
- >opinion no one else has, not that your opinion is not necessarily that
- >of someone else. Are you sure your logic is correct? Better yet, is
- >my logic correct?
- >
-
- I don't think so. The first person's logic looks good to me. He has
- simply set his comments and his opinions to equal nobody elses'. It
- might be a little contrary of an attitude, to define by exclusion, but
- it ought to work (as long as all the opinions and comments are of the
- same type; I suppose you might have trouble if you tried to set your
- nasty opinion equal to someone else's biased opinion...)
-
- But in your logic, no opinions or comments actually change value at all,
- they are simply tested, and nothing is done with the resulting boolean
- value. So your logic seems to be somewhat useless, although not wrong.
-
- --ben
-