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From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: case sensitivity
Message-ID: <12717@lanl.gov>
Date: 26 Apr 89 19:21:19 GMT
References: <124200014@inmet>
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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From article <124200014@inmet>, by dokos@inmet:
> The "telephone test" is mentioned on p.21 of Kernighan & Plauger's
> "Elements of Programming Style". It probably did not originate with
> them - they surround it with quotation marks too.

They only apply it to reading boolean expressions too.  This is a very
narrow interpretation of the "telephone test", and I agree with them
that it may be one of the few contexts where the "telephone test" is
really very valuable.