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From: Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
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Subject: Re: JLS 3/e -- Lots Of Errors
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> You haven’t actually read the languge spec, have you?

javax.swing.JSnarker wrote:
> This is LEW we're talking about. Every other word he posts is a quotation from
> the JLS. He sleeps with a dog-eared copy of the JLS under his pillow. It's
> probably what he masturbates to.

Well, isn't that special?

I suppose you thought that was pretty clever when you wrote it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection

> And though he sometimes loses patience with those of us that don't have it
> memorized backwards and forwards, his JLS-informed advice in this newsgroup is
> frequently useful.

One of the reasons I reread the JLS so often is that I don't memorize it, and 
some of the passages are a bit thick.  As for my citations, that doesn't 
require any special skill.  You just see a question about Java syntax or 
semantics, and you think to yourself, "Hey, let's see what the JLS says about 
that!"  Then you look it up.  That'll make you an instant expert on most of 
those questions.

As for "Lawrence"'s remark, it is quite clear that evidence or reason for it 
were not foremost in his mind.  He ain't nothin' but a hound dog.  He ain't 
never caught a rabbit, and he ain't no friend of mine.

-- 
Lew
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