From: Kbwms AT aol DOT com Message-ID: <10c.28ae97b9.2c80a1a2@aol.com> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 08:31:30 EDT Subject: Re: Arithmetic Exceptions in C99 To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_10c.28ae97b9.2c80a1a2_boundary" X-Mailer: 8.0 for Windows sub 6015 Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com --part1_10c.28ae97b9.2c80a1a2_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 8/29/2003 7:01:36 AM Eastern Standard Time, eliz AT elta DOT co DOT il writes: > > >BTW I think you've got too many negatives above. Should it be: > > > >"Neither libc.a nor libm.a, as we have them, produce SIGFPE; on the > contrary, > >they go to great lengths to avoid that." > Be careful when criticizing others language usage lest you become a target of the language police. There is a brand of English that sprang up years ago that came to be called (variously) Mountain English or Frontier English -- the more negatives in a sentence the more negative the meaning. "He ain't never had no useful ideas, nohow," is an example. > What can I say? I'm not a native English speaker. > I'd say you do rather well, Eli. KB Williams --part1_10c.28ae97b9.2c80a1a2_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In a message dated 8/29/2003 7:01:36 AM Eastern Standard= Time, eliz AT elta DOT co DOT il writes:


>BTW I think you've got too many negatives above. Should it be:
>
>"Neither libc.a nor libm.a, as we have them, produce SIGFPE; on the cont= rary,
>they go to great lengths to avoid that."


Be careful when criticizing ot= hers language usage lest you become a target of the language police.  T= here is a brand of English that sprang up years ago that came to be called (= variously) Mountain English or Frontier English -- the more negatives in a s= entence the more negative the meaning.  "He ain't never had no useful i= deas, nohow," is an example.=

What can I say? I'm not a nativ= e English speaker.

I'd say you do rather well, El= i.


KB Williams --part1_10c.28ae97b9.2c80a1a2_boundary--