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Re: comparison logic

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From Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject Re: comparison logic
Date Fri, 03 Feb 2017 18:45:08 -0800
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Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
> Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> writes:
[...]
>> For example, it
>> would apply to a const-qualified object, which isn't something
>> I'd refer to as a "variable".
>
> Whether you would say so or not, such usage is in common parlance
> and widely understood.  What is in the Standard doesn't change the
> meaning of ordinary English, even if the meanings in question
> apply only in technical dialect.

Really?  I wouldn't use the word "variable" to refer to something that
can't vary.  (Yes, I know the old joke that "constants aren't, variables
won't".)

But I think this stopped being worthwhile several messages ago.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
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