Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!ames!claris!krazy
From: krazy@claris.com (Jeff Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: the Telephone Test
Message-ID: <9967@claris.com>
Date: 25 Apr 89 06:27:12 GMT
References: <1261@infmx.UUCP>
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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From article <1261@infmx.UUCP>, by kevinf@infmx.UUCP (Kevin Franden):
> In article <9957@claris.com> I write:
>>"Pound include st'deeoh dot aitch.  Main arg-see arg-vee.  Int arg-see.  Care
>>star star arg-vee.  Open brace.  Int eye.  For eye equal one, eye less than
> 					       ^
> 					paren _should_ be here
> 					(notice the case sensitivity=-)
>>arg-see, eye plus plus.  Print-eff quote argument percent dee is percent ess
>                         ^
> 			paren here too?  (or are you doing a one liner?)
>>period backslash enn endquote comma eye comma arg-vee sub eye.  Close brace."

Nope.  No parens.  I'm making the assumption that the listener knows the
language.  Notice I also left out every semicolon and all the other parens,
as well as the angle brackets around "st'deeoh dot aitch".

C'mon.  You know the laguage well enough to have figured out that parens
should go there.  Why should I have to remind you?

If I had been doing a one-liner, I would have explicitly stated "eye plus
plus COMMA print-eff..." to make sure you knew.  And I probably would've
said the parens, too.
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