Re: Compile time executed functions

[Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Ken Garlington wrote:

> 
> "Florian Weimer" <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote in message
> news:87hf0cs7ci.fsf@deneb.enyo.de...
> : Mark Biggar <mark.a.biggar@home.com> writes:
> :
> : > It's been done many times.  For example go read "Godel, Esher and
> : > Bach" by Hofsteder,
> :
> : I think the third name is spelled 'Batch', at least the list is more
> : consistent then. ;-)
> 
> Well, I have to ask - what's the joke here?

Check the spelling. The only name that Mark spelled correctly was
Bach's. Of course, if Mark is using an ASCII only editor then I think
it's a bit unfair to criticize Godel since we don't have an umlaut; I've 
seen it spelled "Goedel" in umlaut free texts. And the Nederlands
challenged American might also spell it "Esher" since that's how we
pronounce that name, I'll have to check but if Escher is pronounced the
way it's spelled (I thought most Dutch words were) then the "ch" is like
the ch in Bach. 

-- Brian