From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hattuari Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to populate a property list? Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 10:23:26 -0500 Organization: Asii Message-ID: <3o-dneTdVtJvnhjcRVn-tg@speakeasy.net> References: <2u78gpF279dr3U1@uni-berlin.de> <7ezn243zah.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> <1tCdneLTFrxuSB7cRVn-pA@speakeasy.net> <7evfcs3qq3.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1099236435 14677 80.91.229.6 (31 Oct 2004 15:27:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 15:27:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 31 16:27:06 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1COHbm-0003rD-00 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:27:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1COHjj-00018s-9X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 10:35:19 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.speakeasy.net!news.speakeasy.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 09:25:38 -0600 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: KNode/0.8.1 Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.92.149.152 Original-X-Trace: sv3-ovIJCgaZS+vlI2D7rZH21/ih/hH5I1QTQw+Wro9o22DSMOCN22sn+tcjS+qv7g7JwE/nTyXTxqNOkqn!Idf3n+2s53Qxr9YNbWd/QY1ibH/ia1A7y+MjcYUJe988zrtWndyxEYJC2c6RrDQG865eHbRiZKrN!gOJnplc6oBg8Ezx554I= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@speakeasy.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@speakeasy.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.20 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:126273 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:21655 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:21655 Hattuari wrote: > Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > >> of course, ymmv. you may wish for industrial strength building >> materials instead of coconuts and sand castles. that's fine, too. >> every once in a while some titanic technology grounds itself out >> on the emacs shore -- in time, transformed by the incessant yap, >> hap, lapping of the [yhl]acker s[eu]rf (itself a {t}id{al,le} >> reflection of lunatic ellipsoid centered around "know" and "do"), >> it becomes coconuts and sand castles in the playful hands of the >> island inhabitants, as well. >> >> thi > > You have know idea how ironic your comments are in contrast to the culture > of C++. Here people throw coconuts at you when they don't like what you say. On comp.lang.c++ they throw knives. Seriously. In the C++ community there is a certain obsession about specifying things exactly (note that I did not say clearly), and an expectation that things behave as specified. -- p->m == (*p).m == p[0].m