Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Sosman Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: in1To10 Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 10:32:48 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <0c8de66a-429a-4697-b575-35f37a7b6882@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 14:32:49 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="bd4e1cba8d8592bec5d5ed9e4537fbfd"; logging-data="9596"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19IxURrwDDldwr6VKGpsYhP" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:AuNPDwrsGbhudi4jxDFaO3+8gQA= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:29625 On 8/10/2014 10:01 AM, Chris Uppal wrote: > Eric Sosman wrote: > >> "Not really addressing the question" is a good opening, because >> the offered code addresses a different question than the one posed. >> (You've repeated Marcel Mueller's mistake, perhaps by reading a little >> too quickly.) > > Drat... It's oddly interesting that at least three people have made the same error (I did, too, but had the good fortune to catch myself *before* posting). Perhaps we're all thinking back to the days when we took our first fumbling steps at Boolean logic, and we sort of half-recognize the problem: "Aha!" we think, "this is somebody's idea of a way to introduce exclusive-OR!" Then we leap ahead to solve a problem for which XOR would be useful (we may or may not actually use XOR), and we wind up solving the wrong problem ... -- esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid