Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!iuvax!cica!gatech!udel!mmdf From: V61%DHDURZ1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Ronald Lamprecht) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Guilty party exonerated Message-ID: <20108@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 20 Jul 89 16:46:37 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 10 I as the author of the patches (the guilty party) would like to point out that Erik Baalbergen in his article from 19 Jul 89 did exactly figure out the reasons why I did set $* and $< to a NULL string for explicit rules. Within the old version it has been set to the result of the last evaluated implicit rule and did only match the common expectations for the embracing explicit rule in 90% by chance. Bitnet: V61@DHDURZ1 Ronald Lamprecht UUCP: ...!unido!DHDURZ1.bitnet!V61 Theoretische Physik ARPAnet: V61%DHDURZ1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Heidelberg, West Germany)