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Re: Program to print the longest line

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On 11/18/2015 02:01 PM, Alla _ wrote:
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> Yes, as John has pointed out, and I have replied to that, I did
> make the same typo (last time by simply copying what had been written
> by me previously) several times. 
> 
> I wonder if I am the only person in the world who makes typos in 
> comments: I am being constantly chastised for them, though I am
> trying to be careful, even when typing messages :))) Believe me, 
> no one's better in chastising me than myself ) 

I create lots of typos every day. For example, the word typo at the
beginning of this sentence was typed as
    't' 'y' 'p' 'e' ' ' backspace backspace 'o' ' '
and that was just the first of a dozen different typing errors I
committed while typing this paragraph (I probably committed more than
usual because I was counting my errors while committing them).

However, there's a simple precaution that you should use with any
program text: write the code the a file, and try to compile it. If that
compilation fails, and if it's the failure that you're reporting, then
you're ready to report it. If the compilation succeeds, but the program
itself fails, you'll have to do a test run of the program before
reporting it. However, either way, the compiler would have caught the
misplaced '{'.
But how about when you copy the program to your e-mail message? Doesn't
that provide a fresh opportunity to type the wrong character? Yes, if
you copy it in manually - which is why you should NEVER copy it in
manually. Always cut-and-paste from the actual source code that you
compiled.

Any time you post a message with manually copied source code, you are
likely to waste your time and ours tracking down problems caused by
typos created during that copy, rather than the actual problem you had a
question about.

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Program to print the longest line Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-18 08:10 -0800
  Re: Program to print the longest line Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-18 08:49 -0800
    Re: Program to print the longest line Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-18 09:03 -0800
    Re: Program to print the longest line Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-11-18 09:04 -0800
      Re: Program to print the longest line Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-18 09:24 -0800
  Re: Program to print the longest line Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-11-18 17:42 +0000
    Re: Program to print the longest line Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-18 10:49 -0800
      Re: Program to print the longest line James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-11-18 13:55 -0500
        Re: Program to print the longest line Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-18 11:01 -0800
          Re: Program to print the longest line James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-11-18 14:19 -0500
            Re: Program to print the longest line Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-18 21:50 -0800
              Re: Program to print the longest line James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-11-19 06:39 -0500
                Re: Program to print the longest line Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-19 05:07 -0800
                Re: Program to print the longest line James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-11-19 10:12 -0500
                Re: Program to print the longest line Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-19 07:49 -0800
      Re: Program to print the longest line Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-11-18 19:08 +0000
    Re: Program to print the longest line Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2015-11-18 14:54 -0500
      Re: Program to print the longest line Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-18 23:36 -0800
        Re: Program to print the longest line Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-11-19 21:15 -0800
          Re: Program to print the longest line Geoff <geoff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-11-19 21:29 -0800
          Re: Program to print the longest line David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-11-20 11:00 +0100
            Re: Program to print the longest line glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-11-20 15:13 +0000
            Re: Program to print the longest line supercat@casperkitty.com - 2015-11-20 11:29 -0800
            Re: Program to print the longest line Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-11-20 12:51 -0800
              Re: Program to print the longest line Philip Lantz <prl@canterey.us> - 2015-11-24 01:59 -0800
                Re: Program to print the longest line Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-11-27 13:34 -0800
  Re: Program to print the longest line John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2015-11-18 18:10 +0000
    Re: Program to print the longest line Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-18 10:53 -0800
      Re: Program to print the longest line Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2015-11-18 13:55 -0800
        Re: Program to print the longest line Alla _ <modelling.data@gmail.com> - 2015-11-18 23:32 -0800
  Re: Program to print the longest line Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2015-11-18 11:58 -0800

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