Shmuel Your characteristic nose-penetrating inadequately documented stand-alone "No"s are an affront to the purposes of the list and do not constitute a "civilized discussion". Rather they cause exhaustion and are very misleading for those readers who may wish to learn something.
As for being offensive, please refer to your recent extensive post on my last attempt to counter your amazing ability to misunderstand. I might also point out that the "future bugs" to which you refer are presumably caused by a new programmer having come along and misunderstood what has been coded already. It was always the intention behind my comments to try to find a way to minimize that possibility. I believe Alan had exactly the same intent and I'm sure his "best practice" was intended to be an Aunt Sally rather than an ex cathedra. Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> Sent: Thursday, 09 November, 2006 5:23 PM Subject: Re: Assembler question > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/07/2006 > at 08:21 AM, Tom Marchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >Up until now we have been carrying on a civilized discussion, > > Chris Mason has not been carrying on a civilized discussion, and his > comments were a lot more offensive than Alan's. That said, I consider > numeric lengths to be an invitation to future bugs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
