Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hp-pcd.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpfcla!ajs From: ajs@hpfcla.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: typedefs, etc. - (nf) Message-ID: <4361@hp-pcd.UUCP> Date: Sun, 22-Jan-84 03:59:41 EST Article-I.D.: hp-pcd.4361 Posted: Sun Jan 22 03:59:41 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 23-Jan-84 04:38:08 EST Sender: notes_gateway@hp-pcd.UUCP Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO Lines: 24 #R:cincy:-116500:hpfcla:43800004:000:1090 hpfcla!ajs Jan 14 18:24:00 1984 Tim Maroney's statement that " is the clearest way to do it in C" cannot go unchallenged. If there is one thing I have learned by now, it is that there are no absolutes, at least not in this business. Things only seem absolute to people because of their personal perspectives. "Absolutes" are just things almost everyone agrees on. So, you do it your way, I'll do it my way, and if we happen to work on each other's code and don't like it, we can curse each other out publicly, privately, or under our breaths, and maybe that social interaction will influence us in ways that bring us more toward the "accepted standard", and maybe not, because that's how it has always really worked anyway; . Alan "I finally got to flame at Tim" Silverstein PS: I reserve to right to make seemingly inconsistent absolutist arguments in the future, because assertiveness is part of the game. PPS: Any cretin (and most other people) can see that "return (a == b);" is clearer than "return a == b;", so there, nyaa, nyaa. :-)