In <listserv%201105161217371283.0...@bama.ua.edu>, on 05/16/2011 at 12:17 PM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> said:
>Because you trimmed the essence of my remark, I quoted the part that I was challenging. >then disputed what remained out of context. Context is not always relevant. I was challenging the claim "It allows function reference before definition, so a typo in a function name would cause the interpreter to swallow all input looking for the definition." I don't see how anything prior to the comma changes the claim after the comma. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html