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Subject: Re: SPM bugs
Bill,
that makes sense
>From a German
Bill,
that makes sense
>From a German
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Bill Fairchild wrote:
> For a fuller exposition of verboten und/oder erlaubt, a recent Russian
> textbook of mine had this Soviet-era joke (with my translation):
>
> "In England, what is allowed is allowed, but what is forbidden is
> forbidden.
> In Germany, every
For a fuller exposition of verboten und/oder erlaubt, a recent Russian textbook
of mine had this Soviet-era joke (with my translation):
"In England, what is allowed is allowed, but what is forbidden is forbidden.
In Germany, everything is forbidden except that which is allowed.
In America, everyt
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> On Dec 6, 2010, at 03:48, D E Engelbrecht wrote:
> >
> >> Authoritarian schemes--Programming languages constructed as dialects of
> > Newspeak, Was its nicht erlaubt ist verboten, and the like--are always
> > misconceived.
> >
> > 'misconcei
On Dec 6, 2010, at 03:48, D E Engelbrecht wrote:
>
>> Authoritarian schemes--Programming languages constructed as dialects of
> Newspeak, Was its nicht erlaubt ist verboten, and the like--are always
> misconceived.
>
> 'misconceived' - Agreed.
>
> For the purists:
>
> Was ist nicht erlaubt is verbo
john gilmore wrote, elaborating on syntax and expressions:
Authoritarian schemes--Programming languages constructed as
dialects of Newspeak, Was its nicht erlaubt ist verboten, and the
like--are always misconceived.
Agree. ;-))
and "its" has no validity in this syntax and should have been flagg
I will take this opportunity to make a further general comment. Technical
> disagreement is the stuff of this list. Rhetoric and innuendo are not.
> That said, anyone who wishes to engage in rhetorical warfare with me is
> welcome to the arena. He should come well armed for that sort of combat
Fred van der Windt wrote:
< begin snippet>
Ah.
So if I code a macro invocation with parameters that do not meet the documented
specification of that macro, but the macro ignores the incorrect parameters and
uses the remaining parameters to generate some code anyway without any mention
of pos
