Re: requeue vs requeue with abort - code example pleaseeee

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com> writes:

> On Dec 10, 12:13 pm, Warren <ve3...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dmitry A. Kazakov expounded innews:1hvnr1d2wp3vj$.fnxma3y5cxig.dlg@40tude.net:
>>
>> > On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 19:00:12 +0000 (UTC), Warren wrote:
>>
>> >> Also remember it is "Ada" not "ADA". Otherwise we might
>> >> assume you're learning dentistry. ;-)
>>
>> > All elder languages had capitalized names: FORTRAN, COBOL,
>> > PL, SNOBOL, C. ..
>>
>> That was once true of acronyms, but not for names. As a name, it
>> has never been right to fully capitalize Ada.
>>
>> Why they changed the rule for acronyms, beats me though. I liked
>> things they way they were. Did capitals get more expensive?
>
> I'm curious---what acronyms are you referring to?  Most acronyms I see
> are still in upper case.  (A few pronounceable acronyms ended up
> becoming actual words, such as "radar", but that's an exceptional
> case.)  But I don't think there's been a rule change...

In the UK there used to be the National Institute for Health and
Clinical Excellence (in the approval loop for drug use in NHS), =>
NIHCE, pronounced "nice", now spelt Nice ... spit (actually I think it
may be about to be abolished ..)