cottrell@NBS-VMS.ARPA (COTTRELL, JAMES) (10/16/85)
/* > Subject: Re: Struxure Args & Assignment > I just wanted to tell you that I find it hard to dechipher yor articles > with heavy use of innovative spelling, ampersands and so on. > You see, most of us here in Sweden learn english by reading a lot, > as opposed to you folks who get the langage "for free" hearing it all the > time since you were little children. > I find converting your "x" everywhere to a well-known word tiresome > (It includes converting to and from phonetics) so you run the risk > of being skipped while we read news. > > By the way I agree that structure and array args should either both be present > or non-present in a language. The current situation where you can do certain > things with arrays only if you put them in a structure (maybe as the only > member) is a bit absurd. > Johan Finnved, Objecta Sweden Oh, yeah! There's a whole world out there, right? I can sympathize with y'all Swedes (& (and) other aliens), altho(ugh) I don't think I'll change my habits muchly. As for you Yanks, GFY! This is not net.META.lang.C. Take what you get. As for skipping my articles, that's your loss. I find spelling errors (especially when they are deliberate & easily decipherable (at least to anglophones)) to be trivial compared with inaccurate postings. BTW (by the way), the ampersand (&) is `a character typically standing for the word "and"' according to my dixionary. Besides it's a character standing for `logical and' in C, so don't pretend you don't know it. As for your last paragraph, your taste is excellent. jim cottrell@nbs */ ------