Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!harrier.ukc.ac.uk!eagle.ukc.ac.uk!icdoc!ivax!cdsm From: cdsm@ivax.doc.ic.ac.uk (Chris Moss) Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog Subject: Re: Newsletter. Message-ID: <552@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> Date: 4 Jan 89 16:16:56 GMT References: <541@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> <875@quintus.UUCP> Sender: news@doc.ic.ac.uk Reply-To: cdsm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Chris Moss) Distribution: comp Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK. Lines: 26 In article <875@quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes: >In article <541@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> cdsm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Chris Moss) writes: >>In future I will send a note to everyone who's[sic] contribution may >>appear in the column. If I get a reply in reasonable time disagreeing >>with the inclusion of their contribution I won't print it. If they >>want to make changes then I'll try and oblige. >Fine with me, provided it is amended to "If I get a reply _agreeing_ with >the inclusion of their contribution I _will_ print it". [I'll be off the >net for a while, so I hereby give Chris Moss permission to quote any of >my postings without asking me until my first posting next year.] The reason I framed it negatively was to cover the case of not getting a reply. Unfortunately if I delete my original statement and use Richard's version then negation as failure gives the wrong answer. Reply My proposal Richard's proposal agrees publish publish no reply publish ? presumably not disagree not publish not publish OK Richard, I'll ADD your statement to mine! Chris Moss.