From: "Richard E. Harke" <rharke@earthlink.net>
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: fencepost error in encoding processing
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:03:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200911161403.20080.rharke@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <64939.46380.qm@web37903.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
On Sunday 15 November 2009 11:32:52 pm Mike Gran wrote:
> > From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
> > Yes, it looks good to me too. My only comment is that it took me a
> > while to see what you meant by 'fencepost'. I'm not familiar with
> > that expression, and thought it was something to do with building on
> > fencepost.gnu.org. So you might like to add some further explanation to
> > the commit message when you commit.
>
> Sigh. I suddenly feel old. What do they teach you kids these days? ;)
>
> http://www.catb.org/jargon/
>
> http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/F/fencepost-error.html
>
> -Mike
Hey. I am old. Been programming since 1969. This the first time
I've heard of a "fence-post error".
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-16 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-15 4:36 fencepost error in encoding processing Ken Raeburn
2009-11-15 8:48 ` Mike Gran
2009-11-15 22:46 ` Neil Jerram
2009-11-16 7:32 ` Mike Gran
2009-11-16 22:03 ` Richard E. Harke [this message]
2009-11-16 13:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2009-11-16 17:25 ` Ken Raeburn
2009-11-16 21:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
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