Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Java left shift and right shift operators. Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 08:42:41 -0400 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 51 Message-ID: References: <295e16b3-2ed8-4529-bfb0-1cc26ed93ad6@d26g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <1b558330-ae94-4e4e-9922-a9aeb63eaf37@d19g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <44bbc323-c260-4169-ab2a-11b95d9e73e8@34g2000pru.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net l2L8qps1qXUBQA+6dR36ZjQh/aHNx0TlYuVcavRZ5uMps/S9eKSD3zCjLrxyBAT+UsomGY8q9g9RLPEIfaF2LZpJnY8jBMgYswLIKlNzMaPGoy9oKjdT75qfPqX77hVo NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:42:28 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="HOsw+lGeBPMfhODyZFaawxe5FvDG58/FfCggh5ILaUM0Cec7njsLkFoA1TV9mwqF0j3FxEjSwECEJbo70oITTW91OwQ82J0vNmZPMLViz2lUu0oosi4UDFR3QO2RNopI"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Thunderbird/3.1.8 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:1iXnB8/BgYalMGB6R+CKLyLX2x0= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3302 Andreas Leitgeb wrote: > Lew wrote: >> Andreas Leitgeb wrote: >>> Lew wrote: >>>> Sanny, please attribute your citations. >>>> Sanny wrote: [sic*] >>>>>>>> Is there [...] >>>> Eric Sosman wrote: [sic*] >>>>>> Let me [...] >>>> Sanny wrote: >>>>> I didnt [...] >>> *: Two of three attributions (intendly?) wrongly indented. >>> Lew, please indent attributions with the correct number of ">"s. >> Obviously you neglected to see how far back these quotes came. The >> indentations were correct. Check again. [Andreas] > I said they were wrongly *indented*, not that they were wrongly placed. > > As I explained already once, a snippet like this: > > Eric Sosman wrote: > >> Let me [...] > > does NOT say, that the words "Let me" were Eric's, but instead implies, > that Eric Sosman had quoted someone who wrote those words, because there > are two levels difference in indentation. TFB, dude. > Had you instead written: > > Eric Sosman wrote: > >> Let me [...] > it would have been correct and remained clear in further followups, > each adding another ">" infront of all the lines (except the new > initial attribution line). > > PS: there was another [sic] in my post, though: the word "intendedly" > had unnoticedly lost one of its "ed"s. > > PPS: The higher the need to strictly clarify who wrote what, the lower > really the use of contributing to that particular subthread. :-) Fuck that. I'm sticking with the indentation Thunderbird gives me, and the occasional reinforcement with reminders of whose speaking. Work it out or don't read it, I don't care which. -- Lew Honi soit qui mal y pense. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Friz.jpg