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On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 20:34:56 +0100, Dr J R Stockton
<reply1224@merlyn.demon.co.uk.not.invalid> wrote:

>In comp.lang.javascript message <n1BUf3GqMg1PFwpq@J.A830F0FF37FB96852AD0
>8924D9443D28E23ED5CD>, Mon, 11 Jun 2012 15:39:38, John G Harris
><john@nospam.demon.co.uk> posted:
>
>>On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 at 13:12:02, in comp.lang.javascript, Thomas
>>'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>
>>>"Illegal" is nonsense in programming
>>
>>In colloquial English "illegal" has two meanings. One is something
>>criminal. The other, more general, is disobeying some rules.
>>
>>Example, taken from the C++ standard :
>>  "Using these specifiers with type declarations is illegal in C++."
>
>Nevertheless, one should eschew its use in public; in particular, in
>error messages that a normal respectable user might see.  Normal users
>can be consternated by an assertion that an illegal operation has been
>attempted or performed.  The English language contains many words ... (

     "invalid" is not perfect either.  I read one story where a user
angrily asked, "Are you calling me an invalid?"

>>>(except where software licenses are
>>>concerned).

     Or data privacy laws, or ...

>>Breaking a software license is a breach of contract, not a crime.
>
>and "license" is not one of them) ... which can be used instead.

>>>Source code can be syntactically *invalid* or *valid*,
>
>>>and it
>>>can *work* or *not work*.
>>  <snip>
>>
>>Too few cases : think Halting Theorem.
>
>It can also work unreliably.  Consider
>
>        D = new Date() ; D.setMonth(5)
>
>which has about a 1 in 52 chance of doing what probably was not
>expected; and consider the careless implementation of Zeller's

     It depends how familiar you are with JavaScript.  If you are
expecting months from 1 to 12 as everywhere else that I have seen, the
probability is 1 that it is not what was expected.  I still think that
it is the stupidest language misdesign that I have run across.

>Congruence which was in a (draft?) RFC or similar in the nineteen-
>nineties; and consider the implementation of Number.toString(B) in which
>the final character was incremented if the remainder was a half or
>more.

     What was that?  "9" becoming ":" in ASCII?

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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the if condition not workiong properly Ganesh <ganesh.vemakoti45@gmail.com> - 2012-06-10 22:54 -0700
  Re: the if condition not workiong properly Jason C <jwcarlton@gmail.com> - 2012-06-11 02:27 -0700
  Re: the if condition not workiong properly "Tom de Neef" <tdeneef@qolor.nl> - 2012-06-11 11:35 +0200
    Re: the if condition not workiong properly Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-06-11 13:12 +0200
      Re: the if condition not workiong properly John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2012-06-11 15:39 +0100
        Re: the if condition not workiong properly Dr J R Stockton <reply1224@merlyn.demon.co.uk.not.invalid> - 2012-06-12 20:34 +0100
          Re: the if condition not workiong properly Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-06-12 20:47 -0700
            Re: the if condition not workiong properly Dr J R Stockton <reply1224@merlyn.demon.co.uk.not.invalid> - 2012-06-14 18:49 +0100
              Re: the if condition not workiong properly Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-06-14 20:45 -0700
                Re: the if condition not workiong properly "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2012-06-15 06:30 +0000
                Re: the if condition not workiong properly Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-06-15 09:42 -0700
                Re: the if condition not workiong properly "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2012-06-15 18:38 +0000
                Re: the if condition not workiong properly Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2012-06-15 19:23 +0200
                Re: the if condition not workiong properly Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-06-15 12:54 -0700
                Re: the if condition not workiong properly Dr J R Stockton <reply1224@merlyn.demon.co.uk.not.invalid> - 2012-06-16 21:46 +0100
                Re: the if condition not workiong properly "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2012-06-17 08:03 +0000
          Re: the if condition not workiong properly John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2012-06-14 11:08 +0100
            Re: the if condition not workiong properly Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-06-14 09:23 -0700
            Re: the if condition not workiong properly Dr J R Stockton <reply1224@merlyn.demon.co.uk.not.invalid> - 2012-06-15 19:56 +0100
              Re: the if condition not workiong properly Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2012-06-16 13:26 +1000
                Re: the if condition not workiong properly John G Harris <john@nospam.demon.co.uk> - 2012-06-16 11:33 +0100
                Re: the if condition not workiong properly Dr J R Stockton <reply1224@merlyn.demon.co.uk.not.invalid> - 2012-06-17 19:42 +0100
      Re: the if condition not workiong properly Dr J R Stockton <reply1224@merlyn.demon.co.uk.not.invalid> - 2012-06-12 20:10 +0100

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