On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 11:36:55PM +0200, Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On 08/01/2014 11:25 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote: > >>Great. Now imagine you are a motorhead in a hospital. > >I have no trouble distinguishing between these two meanings of "sick" > >within the same conversation. You just have to resolve your overload > >sets correctly.:-D > > The reason I was bringing this up was indeed that the current thread > could be somewhat aptly summarized as one involving a motorhead who is > trying to persuade a doctor that his patient is not actually sick, and > that indeed, such a claim is completely meaningless; hence no medicine > should be administered.
To me, this thread can be summarized by n parties sharing code in a "common" language but it's actually not a common language because each party has their own incompatible definitions of all the keywords. T -- Stop staring at me like that! It's offens... no, you'll hurt your eyes!