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Re: What is the use of ':' in type definition?

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On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 10:57:36 -0400, Eric Sosman  
<esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> wrote:

> Very many years ago, someone asked for help debugging a truly
> mystifying problem.  I studied his source code, and the mysteries
> just kept mounting up: I simply could not reconcile the output with
> the code he showed me.  Turned out he'd been putting his source
> through the first phase of the compiler, hand-editing the assembly
> "source" it generated, assembling and running the edited stuff, and
> then bringing the original source to me for help.  It's a good thing
> there were no sharp implements close to hand when I figured out what
> he'd been up to ...

I would have probably invoked the “idiot” clause in my contract and  
charged him out the wazoo for that sort of thing.

	Aaron W. Hsu

-- 
Programming is just another word for the lost art of thinking.

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What is the use of ':' in type definition? fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> - 2011-08-13 06:49 -0700
  Re: What is the use of ':' in type definition? Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-08-13 15:10 +0100
  Re: What is the use of ':' in type definition? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-08-13 10:57 -0400
    Re: What is the use of ':' in type definition? "Aaron W. Hsu" <arcfide@sacrideo.us> - 2011-08-13 14:28 -0400
      [OT] Re: What is the use of ':' in type definition? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-08-13 17:39 -0400
  Re: What is the use of ':' in type definition? "Heinrich Wolf" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-08-13 17:40 +0200

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