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From: hamish@mate.sybase.com (Just Another Deckchair on the Titanic)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: One more point regarding = and == (more flamage)
Message-ID: <12259@sybase.sybase.com>
Date: 8 Apr 91 18:12:14 GMT
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In article <3647@inews.intel.com> bhoughto@nevin.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>In article <12269@sybase.sybase.com> hamish@mate.sybase.com (Just Another Deckchair on the Titanic) writes:
<>In article <3425@inews.intel.com> bhoughto@nevin.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>>>Hey, the real world encroaches.  I simply consider
<>>	/* assign-cum-check */
>>>	if ( a=b )
<>>more expressive, readable, correct, and professional than
>>>	if ( (a=b) != 0 )
<>Ah, this from a man who flamed me for daring to introduce the notion of
>>formal semantics into a discussion on compiler writing and formal machine
<>translation to help sort out a problem he had with C semantics....
>
<I don't know what this has to do with formal semantics, Deckchair,
>but I do still have the notes I made on the semantic interpretation
<of pointer sums re operations on them (hint: it's uglier than you
>think, but not indescribable in human language).
<
>>And your ill-tempered, ignorant and hilariously bad
<>flamage based on mis-reading and mis-attributing postings? Well, it was
>>fun while it lasted.
<
>Shit happens, swabbie's-butt-breath.  (Just doing my part
<to positively reinforce your opinion of me, hilariously
>bad as it may be.)

For anyone out there still awake, I have taken this to email, for
obvious reasons.

(Anyone interested in the results (eg. the answer to such burningly
relevant questions as "what did Blair see on the road to Intel that
caused him to switch from flaming people for using semantics to help
resolve real-world compiler writing issues, to (perhaps) seeing some
use to formal semantics?", and "has Blair learnt to get attributions
right yet (and not flame himself in the foot doing so..." can email me
(or him)).

	Hamish
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