From: pspeller AT linx DOT co DOT uk (Phil Speller)
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Subject: Re: Integer variables
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 09:58:59 GMT
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On Thu, 14 Aug 1997 15:23:18 -0500, "A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu>
wrote:

>Phil Speller wrote:
>> 
>> On Wed, 13 Aug 1997 19:44:46 -0400, "A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> >Stanley Tsang wrote:
>> >  if ( i == 1)
>> >
>> >rather than if (i = 1)?
>> >
>> Always a good typo that one!  I prefer...
>> 
>>   if ( 1 == i )
>> 
>> thus enabling the compiler to catch the above.
>
>i would appreciate it you attribute quotations appropriately in the
>future. nothing you have quoted was written by mr. tsang. you have also
>quoted it so that the original meaning is lost. i do not know if he had
>actually made that error, i was merely asking.
>
>  -- Sinan
I quoted only the part of the message I wished to comment on.  I was
merely pointing out a method in which a compiler could be used to trap
a common and simple typo.  I agree that I have inadvertently caused
your reply to Stanley Tsang to appear as if he wrote it.  If you deem
this mistake bad enough to warrant a flame then, so be it.  I have
been misquoted like this in the past, as have others.  I put it down
to human nature - not all of us are perfect.  On the other hand, some
of us are anally retentive.

Phil Speller,
Cambridgeshire,
England.

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