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From: nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: gotos
Message-ID: <11352@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: 23 Apr 88 16:32:55 GMT
References: <1988Apr11.201934.20594@utzoo.uucp> <451@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <993@micomvax.UUCP>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
Lines: 13
Summary: language bug

In article <993@micomvax.UUCP>, ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn) writes:

[... much very sensible discussion deleted ...]

> a "soap-box" forum.  A poster *must* realize that (s)he is exposing himself
                                                    ^^^^^             ^^^^^^^
Twisting the language to become gender-free is not so easily done, as this
example demonstrates.  You have to change *all* references to a variable,
not just some of them, if the code is to work.
-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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