Re: Wanting to use getElementById()

From	Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Subject	Re: Wanting to use getElementById()
Date	2011-12-15 15:53 -0800
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On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:51:49 +0000, Dr J R Stockton
<reply1150@merlyn.demon.co.uk> wrote:

[snip]

>I recall one case where spacing was significant.  This was in some
>version of HP FORTRAN, not that it matters.  A colleague complained of
>an inscrutably failing COMMON statement.  I don't recall the variable
>names, but the code resembled
>
>      COMMON THIS, THAT, ..., ..., ..., THING, TOTHER,
>     C SOMETHINGELSE
>
>but TOTHER just did not act as a COMMON, although all the others did.
>We stared at the screen in disbelief.  Eventually I observed that TOTHER
>started in a position which might well have been column 73 or 74, and
>light dawned.  Had he not put spaces after his commas ...

     Column 73 and on have bitten more than a few people.

     When I was taking a COBOL course in my diploma, I was very
careful about column 73.  Any other student would have been wondering
what I was about.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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Wanting to use getElementById() Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2011-12-09 18:06 +0000
  Re: Wanting to use getElementById() "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2011-12-09 20:04 +0000
    Re: Wanting to use getElementById() Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2011-12-09 23:59 +0000
      Re: Wanting to use getElementById() Swifty <steve.j.swift@gmail.com> - 2011-12-10 06:43 +0000
        Re: Wanting to use getElementById() Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2011-12-10 09:55 +0000
        Re: Wanting to use getElementById() "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2011-12-10 10:12 +0000
          Re: Wanting to use getElementById() Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2011-12-10 12:16 +0000
            Re: Wanting to use getElementById() "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2011-12-10 15:09 +0000
              Re: Wanting to use getElementById() Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2011-12-10 17:10 +0000
                Re: Wanting to use getElementById() "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2011-12-10 18:17 +0000
                Re: Wanting to use getElementById() Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2011-12-10 18:51 +0000
                Re: Wanting to use getElementById() "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivoort@interxnl.net> - 2011-12-10 19:59 +0000
            Re: Wanting to use getElementById() Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2011-12-10 21:22 +0000
              Re: Wanting to use getElementById() Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-12-11 00:52 +0100
      Re: Wanting to use getElementById() Dr J R Stockton <reply1150@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2011-12-13 19:52 +0000
        Re: Wanting to use getElementById() Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-12-13 17:29 -0800
          Re: Wanting to use getElementById() Dr J R Stockton <reply1150@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2011-12-15 21:51 +0000
            Re: Wanting to use getElementById() Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-12-15 15:53 -0800

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