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From: "Richard Heathfield" <complangc@eton.powernet.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Partners Wanted
Date: 1999/07/13
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Date: 1999-07-13T00:00:00+00:00
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Andrew Koenig <ark@research.att.com> wrote in article
<FEtKD3.G52@research.att.com>...
> In article <7mfpke$ebq$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>,
> Warner Bruns <bruns@tetibm2.ee.TU-Berlin.DE> wrote:
> 
> > > OK, here's a pop quiz.  If X is 7 and Y is 3 and you execute
> 
> > > 	MULTIPLY X BY Y.
> 
> >  Let me guess:
> 
> >    X now has the value of 21
> 
> >  Is this right?
> 
> No, it's wrong.  Please try again.
> 
> My point in bringing up this example, by the way, is that the
> meaning of ``obvious'' depends in large part on what is familiar.

Harvey's Law: For every 255 on-topic threads, there should be 1 off-topic
thread. In that spirit, I'll answer:

X is now 7 and Y is now 3.

It's analogous to the C code:

int x = 7, y = 3;

x * y;

Well, okay, I'm guessing. So?  ;-)


-- 
Richard Heathfield

The bug stops here.