Re: Not STD C is "not C" ? ----WAS: Re: C to Java Byte Code
[f-ups set to c.p, where this discussion may be marginally topical]
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Dik T. Winter wrote:[color=blue]
> Alfred Z. Newmane <a.newmane.remo ve@eastcoastcz. com> writes:[color=green]
>> Thomas G. Marshall wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> Dik T. Winter coughed up:
>>>> In article <Bltgd.6$304.0@ trndny06> "Thomas G. Marshall" writes:
>>>>> I don't see i=i++ as ever anything useful, but 45° tangental to
>>>>> this original thread is something that bothers me. There is a
>>>>> *prevailing* notion that:
>>>>> If it ain't standard C, it ain't C
>>>>> which I think is not quite true.[/color]
>>
>> Mr Dik Winter, this is the result of white spae before the quote token.
>> This serves as an exellent example of what can happen, and why we are
>> asking you to fix this :-)[/color]
>
> My newsreader is a bit more intelligent. I have instructed it to insert
> " > " before quotations. But if the quoted text already starts with a
> space it will only insert " >".[/color]
How about if the quoted text starts with ">"? One of my pet peeves
is news clients that insert extra levels of spaces in quotes; a couple
of levels is okay, but the above quote would end up being
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
> > > > In article <Bltgd.6$304.0@ trndny06> "Thomas G. Marshall" writes:
> > > > > I don't see i=i++ as ever anything useful, but 45° tangental to
> > > > > this original thread is something that bothers me. There is a
> > > > > *prevailing* notion that:
> > > > > If it ain't standard C, it ain't C
> > > > > which I think is not quite true.[/color][/color][/color]
if everyone used your newsreader's conventions without any hand-tweaking,
and that just looks ridiculous---some 1/7 of the total screen real estate
is being taken up by quote markers, which ought to be almost redundant
anyway, if quoting is done properly. (IOW, it ought to be pretty easy
to tell when the writer is "speaking" and when the previous contributors
are "speaking"; the quote markers are IMHO just there for academic reasons
(e.g., "Yes, Elmer did really write that sentence, and not another").
-Arthur,
rambling late at night
[f-ups set to c.p, where this discussion may be marginally topical]
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Dik T. Winter wrote:[color=blue]
> Alfred Z. Newmane <a.newmane.remo ve@eastcoastcz. com> writes:[color=green]
>> Thomas G. Marshall wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> Dik T. Winter coughed up:
>>>> In article <Bltgd.6$304.0@ trndny06> "Thomas G. Marshall" writes:
>>>>> I don't see i=i++ as ever anything useful, but 45° tangental to
>>>>> this original thread is something that bothers me. There is a
>>>>> *prevailing* notion that:
>>>>> If it ain't standard C, it ain't C
>>>>> which I think is not quite true.[/color]
>>
>> Mr Dik Winter, this is the result of white spae before the quote token.
>> This serves as an exellent example of what can happen, and why we are
>> asking you to fix this :-)[/color]
>
> My newsreader is a bit more intelligent. I have instructed it to insert
> " > " before quotations. But if the quoted text already starts with a
> space it will only insert " >".[/color]
How about if the quoted text starts with ">"? One of my pet peeves
is news clients that insert extra levels of spaces in quotes; a couple
of levels is okay, but the above quote would end up being
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
> > > > In article <Bltgd.6$304.0@ trndny06> "Thomas G. Marshall" writes:
> > > > > I don't see i=i++ as ever anything useful, but 45° tangental to
> > > > > this original thread is something that bothers me. There is a
> > > > > *prevailing* notion that:
> > > > > If it ain't standard C, it ain't C
> > > > > which I think is not quite true.[/color][/color][/color]
if everyone used your newsreader's conventions without any hand-tweaking,
and that just looks ridiculous---some 1/7 of the total screen real estate
is being taken up by quote markers, which ought to be almost redundant
anyway, if quoting is done properly. (IOW, it ought to be pretty easy
to tell when the writer is "speaking" and when the previous contributors
are "speaking"; the quote markers are IMHO just there for academic reasons
(e.g., "Yes, Elmer did really write that sentence, and not another").
-Arthur,
rambling late at night
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