Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!dcl-cs!aber-cs!athene!pcg From: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Antonio Grandi) Newsgroups: comp.object Subject: Re: The Emperor Strikes Back Message-ID: Date: 10 Mar 91 18:38:50 GMT References: <1991Mar5.225458.4408@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1991Mar8.061042.5578@tukki.jyu.fi> Sender: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP Organization: Coleg Prifysgol Cymru Lines: 27 Nntp-Posting-Host: aberdb In-reply-to: sakkinen@tukki.jyu.fi's message of 8 Mar 91 06:10:42 GMT On 8 Mar 91 06:10:42 GMT, sakkinen@tukki.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen) said: sakkinen> In article sakkinen> pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Antonio Grandi) writes: pcg> I will give another example, in C++: pcg> [ ... sloppy coding ... ] Apologies for the poor coding. I forgot a few things here and there... :-) sakkinen> [ ... a "spelling" flame ... ] OK, ok, it was sloppy coding. But the audience of this group is not made just of C++ compilers :-); and my example, however flawed, was contrived (hence the omission of irrelevant details like the constructor), and for all its syntactic impropriety did manage to get across the point I was making across, which was not with complex numbers or C++ or constructors... Moreover subject oriented ("ad hominem") spelling flames ("How can we respect *you* if you cannot even spell 'antidisestablishmentarianism' correctly?") or coding flames are not Object Oriented, and therefore outside the scope of this newsgroup :-). -- Piercarlo Grandi | ARPA: pcg%uk.ac.aber@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@aber.ac.uk