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From: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] ... in the Kingdom of Sources
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 06:13:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <009f01c378e4$3cfa0240$b9844051@insultant.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E19xVQU-000HTh-0W@anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net>

> But it is very easy to write a conversion function that does do the check.
> If you have an exceptional requirement, then write the code for it.
> The general purpose library should do the most convenient thing for the
> majority of applications.

except that it's not very useful.  iirc the original rune code did error
returns, but it was realised to be pointless, so they return the
rune error char.



  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-12  4:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-05 11:54 David Presotto
2003-09-05 12:14 ` Lucio De Re
2003-09-05 12:33   ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-07  9:00     ` Aharon Robbins
2003-09-07  9:05       ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-08  9:10         ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-09-08  9:52           ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-08 17:33           ` rob pike, esq.
2003-09-09  8:34             ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-09-09 15:50               ` rob pike, esq.
2003-09-09 15:50               ` rob pike, esq.
2003-09-10 10:17               ` Bruce Ellis
2003-09-11  9:07                 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-09-11 13:06                   ` rog
2003-09-11 14:01                     ` Lucio De Re
2003-09-11 14:25                       ` rog
2003-09-11 15:17                         ` Lucio De Re
2003-09-12  9:18                         ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-09-11 15:48                     ` rob pike, esq.
2003-09-11 17:04                       ` Lucio De Re
2003-09-11 17:40                         ` chris
2003-09-12  4:13                           ` boyd, rounin [this message]
2003-09-12  9:18                           ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-09-12 15:18                             ` rob pike, esq.
2003-09-12 16:39                               ` rog
2003-09-12  9:18                         ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-09-12  0:56                     ` Bruce Ellis
2003-09-11 15:42                   ` rob pike, esq.
2003-09-12  1:18                     ` okamoto
2003-09-12  9:18                     ` Ralph Corderoy
2003-09-12  9:57                       ` Bruce Ellis
2003-09-15  8:27                         ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-09-12  3:53                   ` boyd, rounin
2003-09-12  3:01               ` Dan Cross
2003-09-07 13:48       ` Russ Cox
2003-09-07 15:45         ` David Presotto
2003-09-06 11:13   ` boyd, rounin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-05 12:04 David Presotto
2003-09-05  6:39 lucio
2003-09-05  6:31 ` Lucio De Re
2003-09-05 11:30 ` David Presotto
2003-09-05 11:42 ` David Presotto

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