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From: Matt H <matt@proweb.co.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] is nickle plan9 acceptable?
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Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 14:43:47 +0000
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On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 06:55:00 -0500 (EST)
"erik quanstrom" <quanstro@speakeasy.net> wrote:

> are you one of those guys who is person b in this conversation:
>
> a) can i borrow x?
> b) i belive you can yes.
> a) okay, damit, /may/ i borrow x?

yes I am, it drives people crazy.
but luckily it's not quite at that level

I think it comes from too much programming!

are you the sort of programmer that does :

f = fopen("filename", "w");
f.write(areallybigstring);
f.close()

or
stringlen = len(areallybigstring)
if (not enoughdiskspace(stringlen)) :
	print "not enough space on device to write file"
	sys.exit()
try :
	f = fopen("filename", "w");
except :
	print "couldn't open file for writing"
	sys.exit()
try :
	w = f.write(areallybigstring);
except :
	print "write failed"
	sys.exit()
try :
	f.close()
except :
	print "close failed"

if (w != stringlen) :
	print "agghh not enough bytes written"