C style

[Daniel R. Levy]

In article <2081 at reed.UUCP>, alexis at reed.UUCP (Alexis Dimitriadis) 
	(as about a jillion others) writes:
>In article <538 at ttrdc.UUCP> levy at ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
>>[...] The && operator
>>doesn't GUARANTEE the chronological order of evaluation is going to be left
>>to right, if you have a screwball compiler (though it most probably will be).
>Dear Dan:
>  You have just inserted your foot in your mouth, in full view of the users
>at over 2000 sites around the world.  Observe:

** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH MY STUPIDITY **

I have already recanted this article, which I wrote in a spasm of C paranoia.
I have also issued three cancel messages for it so it will come to a premature
demise at over 2000 sites around the world.

Why, why, WHY will people roundly flame a guy/gal who has made a collossal
gaffe like mine, yet not issue a peep when a plea goes out far and wide for
some kind of information???  Someone wrote a piece of doggerel about this some
time ago:  "I put a question to the net; I haven't found the answer yet..."
(describes being flamed, etc.).  I recently posted a question asking about
an undocumented flag in VMS C "open" statements for reading the entire rec-
ords of Fortran-format files, and save for one unnamed kindhearted soul from
DEC who mailed me an answer, you could have heard a pin drop (and the sub-
ject had been roundly discussed just a couple of months ago, but it was ir-
relevant to me at that time so I let it go...karmic retribution I guess).
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