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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: Sort of trivial code challenge - may be interesting to you anyway
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Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:

> Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> writes:
> [...]
>
>> typedef size_t  Z;
>> typedef _Bool   B;
>
> [...]
>
> Why do you do this?  I find that it makes the code more difficult
> to read.

The reaction from Lew Pitcher was "Brilliant!".  The reaction from
DFS was "I think he knocked it out of the park."  Because Lew and
DFS (and to some extent Michael S) are the ones who had expressed
an interest in my counter challenge, they were my target audience.
So from my point of view there is no reason to be dissatisfied with
what was posted.