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. 
 
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     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)

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