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From: David Rubin <dlrubin@hotmail.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] snprint(), getfields() specification
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 08:36:34 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AFBEA1F.DA8BCFF@hotmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010510143042.67EE4199F8@mail.cse.psu.edu>

rob pike wrote:
> 
> By tradition, the return value of functions report what they did,
> not what they considered doing.

Rob, that's definitely .sig-worthy!

	david

-- 
If 91 were prime, it would be a counterexample to your conjecture.
    -- Bruce Wheeler


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-05-14  8:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-10 14:30 rob pike
2001-05-11  8:33 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-05-14  8:36 ` David Rubin [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-05-10 17:56 rob pike
2001-05-10 17:51 forsyth
2001-05-10 17:40 erik quanstrom
2001-05-10 16:56 rob pike
     [not found] <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
2001-05-10 14:59 ` rob pike
2001-05-10 16:42   ` Scott Schwartz
2001-05-10 18:13   ` Steve Kilbane
2001-05-10 21:38     ` Boyd Roberts
2001-05-11  6:51       ` Steve Kilbane
2001-05-10 13:56 rob pike
2001-05-10 14:25 ` Greg Hudson
2001-05-10 14:44   ` William Josephson
2001-05-10  5:11 Scott Schwartz

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