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From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] [Haskell-cafe] Terminator syntax style (Was: Nested (=>) (Was: On finding the right exposition...))
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2021 15:28:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD2gp_THXAO+HV553jo-9ZGa9uvcFAJnoyOU8aqHOhFyRHz+8Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiVCCo2P09cto4x4iCuw3oA+XYyGtKvrMiyV+XeG1xL_hA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 9:51 AM Douglas McIlroy <
douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:


> The more carefully you read this the more it becomes nonsense.
>
> 1, "Each element" is an individual. You can't put something between an
> individual.
>

"Between each" has been part of Standard English for a thousand years, and
still is today.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-07 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-07 13:50 Douglas McIlroy
2021-10-07 13:54 ` William Cheswick
2021-10-07 19:28 ` John Cowan [this message]
2021-10-07 19:52 Norman Wilson

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