Re: Ambigous function call (or: my first ";" in Lua)

[Mark Meijer <meijer78@...>]

Ah! You got me.

Cigar for you :-)


2009/2/20 David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>:
> Mark Meijer <meijer78@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 2009/2/20 David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>:
>>> Mark Meijer <meijer78@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Jokes aside regarding the sex of the inventor of Cobol and about
>>>> ending statements with a period.
>>>
>>> Close, but no cigar (sometimes a cigar is...).  Misogynist terminology
>>> would be "ending _sentences_ with a period".
>>
>> Aw heck... I had that, and then "corrected" it to instead say statements...
>>
>> Actually, statements are also constructs of natural languages, not
>> just programming languages. Admittedly I don't know as much about
>> punctuation and syntax structures in Cobol, but I suspect it does have
>> statements and not sentences. Unless "sentence" is specific Cobol
>> terminology, which then would probably mean "statement" in the context
>> of any other programming language.
>>
>> Also, one wouldn't generally argue that women speak only one sentence
>> between periods.
>
> You are picking the wrong meaning of "sentence".
>
>  Sentence \Sen"tence\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sentenced}; p. pr. &
>     vb. n. {Sentencing}.]
>     1. To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom; to condemn to
>        punishment; to prescribe the punishment of.
>        [1913 Webster]
>
>              Nature herself is sentenced in your doom. --Dryden.
>        [1913 Webster]
>
>     2. To decree or announce as a sentence. [Obs.] --Shak.
>        [1913 Webster]
>
>     3. To utter sententiously. [Obs.] --Feltham.
>        [1913 Webster]
>
>
> Man is sentenced to bear all consequences of PMS, ending with a period.
>
>> Good thing I'm no misogynist!
>
> Nobody is perfect.
>
> --
> David Kastrup
>
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