[net.lang.c] Language Extensions

cottrell@NBS-VMS.ARPA (COTTRELL, JAMES) (10/08/85)

/*
> > I'm not entirely sure I agree with you about adding construx to the
> > language tho. I once saw this thruout a bunch of sources:
> > 
> I'm quite sure I disagree with the constructs you appear to be adding to
> the language --- the English language. 
> 
> #ifdef cottrell
>    #define construx constructs
>    #define tho      though
>    #define thruout  throughout
> #endif
>
> Ed Nather
> Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
> {allegra,ihnp4}!{noao,ut-sally}!utastro!nather
> nather@astro.UTEXAS.EDU

Very good Ed! I hope you don't live on a `No Thru Street' :-)
I just like the letter x. Any objexions? Fair Enuf?

	jim		cottrell@nbs

P.S. How many ways can you pronounce `ough'?
Thought, though, through, bough, enough, any more?
*/
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kenny@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU (10/10/85)

/* Written  6:23 pm  Oct  7, 1985 by cottrell@NBS-VMS.ARPA in uiucdcsb:net.lang.c */
P.S. How many ways can you pronounce `ough'?
Thought, though, through, bough, enough, any more?
/* End of text from uiucdcsb:net.lang.c */

Cough, cough! 

jgd@uwmcsd1.UUCP (John G Dobnick) (10/13/85)

[Just who was that masked line-eater, anyway?]

> /* Written  6:23 pm  Oct  7, 1985 by cottrell@NBS-VMS.ARPA in uiucdcsb:net.lang.c */
> P.S. How many ways can you pronounce `ough'?
> Thought, though, through, bough, enough, any more?
> /* End of text from uiucdcsb:net.lang.c */
> 
> Cough, cough! 

I fought through this once before.  It is a really tough task to
thoroughly answer this question.

I read somewhere that there were about 25 distinct pronunciations of 
this particular letter sequence.  (Warning: I am depending upon a VERY
old memory here; the actual number may be somewhat less.)

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John G Dobnick
Computing Services Division @ University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
(...ihnp4!uwmcsd1!jgd)