Friday, November 09, 2001, 2:34:23 PM, Chris Benson wrote:

>> Trains are great for hauling stuff from point A to point B, but they

CB> s/ian/am/; s/\bbut\b/and/;

It's nice that we're all geeks here, but it sure would be easier to
read:

Trams are good at X.

and doesn't take many more bytes.  When the static string is close to
the same size as the code to replace it, the overhead saved by not computing the
answer more than makes up for the difference.

Sorry, not attacking you personally, just something I find annoying in
our entire tribe.

-- 
mike


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