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| From | Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c++, comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” |
| Date | 2023-10-09 21:47 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <878r8b7cb8.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink) |
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Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> writes: > Blue-Maned_Hawk to Anton Shepelev: > >> > Blue-Maned_Hawk: >> > [Unicode em-dash replaced with --] >> >> Why? > > Oh, it just doesn't go with Usenet, stylistically and > aesthetically. What is aesthetically wrong about using a bullet-point marker? What is stylistically wrong about writing accented characters? > English plain-text is much like > code -- 7-bit-clean. That's circular. By "plain-text" you mean 7-bit clean. Texts written in English have, traditionally, used all sort of typographical marks, and it has always been considered goof style to write correctly. Phonetic script should be rendered correctly. Foreign words should be rendered correctly. What many people think of a "plain" English text is just what we've been forced to write by clunky technology; first typewriters and then computers. We should more on. There was a time when people would moan if I sent a file with lower case letters in it because it could not be rendered on a CDC mainframe. Come on, it's the 21st century. > And like code (e.g. for Troff or > LaTeX), there are convensions for dashes, /italic/ text, > <URLs>, &c. Your signature is a mess of Unicode > characters -- terrible :-! BMH has posted a bad signature. It's not UTF-8 encoded Unicode at all, despite what the header says. It is what's called mojibake. In fact, properly rendered, his sig just contains a few phonetic letters and, oddly, some "BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL" lines for which I would have used | (despite what I wrote above). Of course the fact that he did not post it correctly could be seen as undermining my case, but I take as a further call to action: come on BMH, buck up and get it right! >> I was not referring to functions returning pointers to >> themselves in the quoted part of my message. I was >> referring to void * being castable to a function pointer. > > Yes, and I asked why the authors of that API decided not to > use the casing that is guarranteed to work, preferring the > dubious casing of void* to function pointers. Almost certainly a case that the designers knew the system involved and were solving an immediate problem for one particular OS on a limited class of machines (SunOS, I think). They never thought that people would still be using it, much less critiquing it, 40 years later! -- Ben.
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“ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2023-10-05 17:40 -0500
Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2023-10-05 15:57 -0700
Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2023-10-06 07:36 +0200
Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2023-10-06 11:59 -0700
Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2023-10-07 23:54 +0300
Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2023-10-08 09:42 +0200
Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2023-10-08 04:27 -0400
Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2023-10-08 12:55 +0300
Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2023-10-08 13:06 +0300
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Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2023-10-08 15:03 +0300
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Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2023-10-08 12:31 -0700
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Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2023-10-10 12:18 -0700
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Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2023-10-13 10:04 -0700
Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-10-08 13:54 +0100
Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2023-10-08 11:25 -0400
Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2023-10-08 20:07 +0300
Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> - 2023-10-08 16:37 +0000
Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2023-10-08 20:05 +0300
Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2023-10-09 01:13 -0400
Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com> - 2023-10-09 13:30 -0700
Re: Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2023-10-09 20:33 +0000
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Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> - 2023-10-09 12:17 +0000
Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2023-10-09 23:03 +0300
Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2023-10-09 20:30 +0000
Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2023-10-09 23:45 +0300
Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2023-10-09 21:21 +0000
Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2023-10-09 21:26 +0000
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Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-10-09 21:47 +0100
Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2023-10-08 15:31 -0700
Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2023-10-09 01:12 -0400
Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2023-10-10 18:46 -0700
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Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2023-10-11 13:47 +0000
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Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2023-10-09 23:06 +0300
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Re: “ChattyG takes a college freshman C/C++ programming exam” Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@g{oogle}mail.com> - 2023-10-12 10:56 +0300
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