From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/48903 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: format called for effect Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 04:53:54 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <84ptrbqte8.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041998020 8410 80.91.224.249 (8 Jan 2003 03:53:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 03:53:40 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18W7He-0002BV-00 for ; Wed, 08 Jan 2003 04:53:38 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18W7ID-0007BO-00; Tue, 07 Jan 2003 21:54:13 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 07 Jan 2003 21:55:08 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA12720 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 21:54:54 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 20155 invoked by alias); 8 Jan 2003 03:53:56 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 20149 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2003 03:53:55 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 8 Jan 2003 03:53:55 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18W7Lj-0007N9-00 for ; Wed, 08 Jan 2003 04:57:51 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1041998271 27484 80.91.231.2 (8 Jan 2003 03:57:51 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Jan 2003 03:57:51 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Kaia's _Ladyman_: "My Voice" User-Agent: Gnus/5.090011 (Oort Gnus v0.11) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: "5Sv* =?RYj/)3R!PYtCU:3oMNhVyza^~#chPCpIh4=DEaRgS{e3kRu(jWN0I{DHE39>]z%m o*s3"VIplB)rCQD7J'cQ9V*RBYx|O}LpU+b"P+T2?42A;UDD?0l:{21Vs"^/-_]1dbk*)m8N0:/q:! VcQBI?C'7,"w$a#-@*k|x?}^P.nHj8QG"$&z?9uE+rkO$[f0n?Q59P/9D#lS^Y1kuN_`cV5\~3kGwi odG@3|S<;67Y.@l$#>XxEon'g(wn/kLIF%8>CgYUVcf.Ri)(AIBT`EQgKlhj@lN)a$eX8jct*pDxkc wXJth9e1|%^|Ne Cancel-Lock: sha1:lmSAonpGnMxJRIdS8J8YtKNOQ6U= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48903 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:48903 Raja R Harinath writes: > It doesn't. And that seems to be the point of the overly cleverly > worded warning. It think the warning says > > "you want a side-effect there, but 'format' ain't gonna do it for you" Yeah, probably. It's a kinda strange thing to warn about -- did anyone ever think that doing a `format' would have a side effect? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen