Re: Zoo question

[rgilbert@unconfigured.xvnews.domain (Bob Gilbert)]

In article <dewar.840110364@schonberg>, dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> LET'S CLEAN UP THE ANIMAL CAGES! :-)

{Thorough explanation of why sample would produce expected results, deleted}

> So, the mystery is, why is this a brain teaser for Ken. That must mean that
> he found it not working on some compiler. 

Or perhaps Ken just likes to throw out a bit of code that works,
imply that it doesn't, and see how badly some of us can embarrass
ourselves trying to explain why it might not work :-).

(Darn, I knew Ted's explanation about the constraint exception
not being guaranteed to occur inside the begin block sounded a
little suspect, but he just sounded so convincing.  I hate when
that happens).

-Bob