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From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Real constants
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 18:03:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1DtYHa-00070g-5w@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jkslygpfhz.fsf@glug.org> (message from Thien-Thi Nguyen on 15 Jul 2005 05:47:52 -0400)

    > Aren't user-defined constants useful in other languages?

    the only user-defined constant is ignorance.
    (with programmers, this is a variable concept. :-)

This should go in the Emacs humor file.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-15 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-13 13:59 Real constants Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-13 18:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-07-13 18:29   ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-14  2:25     ` Stefan Monnier
2005-07-14  8:05       ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-14  3:14     ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-14  8:16       ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-15  0:12         ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-15  0:53           ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-15  9:47             ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-07-15 22:03               ` Richard M. Stallman [this message]
2005-07-16 10:10                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2005-07-15 18:10             ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-15  4:24         ` Stefan Monnier
2005-07-18  6:05           ` Juanma Barranquero

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