From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard E. Harke" Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: fencepost error in encoding processing Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:03:20 -0800 Organization: harke.org Message-ID: <200911161403.20080.rharke@earthlink.net> References: <30581C9F-01D3-4B5F-B413-EF46E1A3D365@raeburn.org> <87zl6nfltg.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <64939.46380.qm@web37903.mail.mud.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258409311 16736 80.91.229.12 (16 Nov 2009 22:08:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:08:31 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 16 23:08:25 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NA9jw-0000Eq-4W for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:08:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60454 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NA9jv-0003ln-NT for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:08:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NA9jn-0003hq-Sp for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:07:55 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NA9jj-0003YU-TH for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:07:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38433 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NA9jj-0003Y7-Nx for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:07:51 -0500 Original-Received: from elasmtp-masked.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([209.86.89.68]:49567) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NA9jj-00085v-Af for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:07:51 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=earthlink.net; b=nqeiMMKJJvGWVZV0zst758a1Nsf0HRlkvAtn62otqOC05IqiydGRX707zqcEXpLt; h=Received:From:Organization:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Original-Received: from [75.26.188.77] (helo=clifford.harke.org) by elasmtp-masked.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1NA9ji-0003kW-Ea for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:07:50 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 In-Reply-To: <64939.46380.qm@web37903.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-ELNK-Trace: 141116dce2dcaa9994f5150ab1c16ac0d64a9adbca5b3d7c2b052ea25a8caf21f0e7c65fff03d1aa350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 75.26.188.77 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:9684 Archived-At: On Sunday 15 November 2009 11:32:52 pm Mike Gran wrote: > > From: Neil Jerram > > Yes, it looks good to me too.=A0 My only comment is that it took me a > > while to see what you meant by 'fencepost'.=A0 I'm not familiar with > > that expression, and thought it was something to do with building on > > fencepost.gnu.org.=A0 So you might like to add some further explanation= to > > the commit message when you commit. > > Sigh.=A0 I suddenly feel old.=A0 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