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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: null pointers of type JOKE* can't be dereferenced
Message-ID: <14820@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 30 Oct 89 16:13:10 GMT
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In article <11441@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>There is another point worth making here.  The Standard must be
>subjected to more than mere "linguistic analysis" in order to
>understand what it is saying; there is a gestalt that must be
>acquired, and it goes beyond the simple expansion of words in
>terms of their definitions, just as concepts in general embody
>much more than is found in their literal definitions.

This suggests a good preface quote for the Standard in its final
published form:

	"Never mind what I say, just do what I tell you."

-- 
"Of course, this is a, this is a Hunt, you   |  Tom Neff
will -- that will uncover a lot of things.   |  tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET
You open that scab, there's a hell of a lot
of things... This involves these Cubans, Hunt, and a lot of hanky-panky
that we have nothing to do with ourselves." -- RN 6/23/72