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On 29/03/2012 04:58, Ross Ridge wrote:
> Chris Angelico<rosuav@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Actually, he is justified. It's one thing to work in C or assembly and
>> write code that depends on certain bit-pattern representations of data
>> (although even that causes trouble - assuming that
>> sizeof(int)=3D=3Dsizeof(int*) isn't good for portability), but in a high
>> level language, you cannot assume any correlation between objects and
>> bytes. Any code that depends on implementation details is risky.
>
> How does that in anyway justify Evan Driscoll maliciously lying about
> code he's never seen?
>
> 					Ross Ridge
>

We appear to have a case of "would you stand up please, your voice is 
rather muffled".  I can hear all the *plonks* from miles away.

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.