Re: puzzling enragement by innocuous variable names

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From	Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: puzzling enragement by innocuous variable names
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Robbie Hatley <see.my.signature@for.my.contact.info> writes:
> On 2/10/2020 11:14 AM, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> You posted to a forum full of C programmers. You posted C code.
>> Did you not want those C programmers to understand your code?
>
> If a person does not "understand" the functions of the left and
> right arguments of main() in C, then that person does not know
> the C programming language, and that person does not belong in
> "a forum full of C programmers".

I had forgotten about this discussion.

To save others the trouble of looking upthread, you had posted
code using:

    int main (int Beren, char *Luthien[])

for some reason.  I have nothing to add to what I wrote about it
back in February.

[snip]

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
Working, but not speaking, for Philips Healthcare
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */

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Re: puzzling enragement by innocuous variable names Robbie Hatley <see.my.signature@for.my.contact.info> - 2020-09-10 19:47 -0700
  Re: puzzling enragement by innocuous variable names Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2020-09-10 20:28 -0700
  Re: puzzling enragement by innocuous variable names Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood <phaywood@alphalink.com.au> - 2020-09-13 14:57 +1000
    Re: puzzling enragement by innocuous variable names gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2020-09-15 17:58 +0000
  Re: puzzling enragement by innocuous variable names Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2020-09-14 09:38 -0600

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