Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: C pointer semantics with dynamically allocated struct Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 15:28:00 -0700 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <87tws5aash.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <353134d7-880d-44a5-81d9-1a317d3d2fd0@googlegroups.com> <56764795-b877-4b9b-bb88-8d04715d95da@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="945944de09706c9b4e29b53c9d2efdc2"; logging-data="25332"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/mArKv4tPqNljgm942xdXp" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:c5hn9ApVr1XgIO08vl/N85LaC6Y= sha1:/W6bdj/Yf70f2dNtbA2LbNzV/Gw= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:73163 Malcolm McLean writes: > On Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at 1:11:58 AM UTC+1, Richard Heathfield wrote: >> On 12/08/15 00:46, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote: >> >> I don't think it's an "actual rule". It's really only common sense. A >> quotation is a playing-back of something someone said (or, to be more >> precise, wrote). If you change the text (other than in trivial ways, >> such as whitespace), it is no longer a quotation. >> > If you transcribe speech verbatim it's full of "kinda"s and "see what > I mean"s, and is very difficult to read. So journalists usually recast > it into written sentences. Occasionally they don't, when they wish > to imply that the speaker is an idiot. It's just a trick you should > be aware of. The context of the discussion is quoting *written* material on Usenet. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc. "We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this." -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"