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From: malloy@crash.cts.com (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: exit(-1), 0 is sometimes magic
Message-ID: <2381@crash.cts.com>
Date: 18 Jan 88 20:58:06 GMT
References: <502@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <6935@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1179@wjvax.UUCP> <1868@bsu-cs.UUCP> <3475@megaron.arizona.edu>
Reply-To: malloy@crash.CTS.COM (Sean Malloy)
Organization: Crash TS, El Cajon, CA
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Keywords: exit, zero, flaming

In article <3475@megaron.arizona.edu> mike@arizona.edu (Mike Coffin) writes:
>In article <1868@bsu-cs.UUCP>, dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>> [...]
>> Zero symmetrically divides the number line.  If one had to choose ONE
>> [...]
>> one that can't be a legal divisor, the only one that, in short,
>> stands out as "different" from all the other values.
>One (1) symmetrically divides the number line.  If one had to choose ONE
> [...]
>only one, in short, that stands out as "different" from all the other
>values. :->

No, zero has to be more 'different'. Zero is the number of subjects
concerning the internals of C which can be discussed without accreting
huge quantities of flames, stupid comments, and "I would do it this
way" followups.

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