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On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:45:27 +0000 (UTC), glen herrmannsfeldt
<gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:

[-snip]

>Someone might find something like the old C favorite:
>
>   while(*s++ = *t**) ;

while (*s++ = *t++);

;-)

>There are also some fun cases in literary fiction, where
>one claims that another copied their story too closely.
>(I believe some related to Harry Potter, where any story 
>with a magical boy could be considered to be infringed.)

JK Rowling was not the first to write about a boy wizard, nor even a
wizard school.
-- 
(\__/)  M.
(='.'=) If a man stands in a forest and no woman is around
(")_(") is he still wrong?