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diff --git a/etc/DEVEL.HUMOR b/etc/DEVEL.HUMOR index 94d86407dd4..9e7e4a9910b 100644 --- a/etc/DEVEL.HUMOR +++ b/etc/DEVEL.HUMOR @@ -136,3 +136,24 @@ without attempting any course of action that requires an advance course in divination. There'd be quite a sensational market for that, you know." -- Emilio Lopes and David Kastrup + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + + "[T]here may be a good reason since the code explicitly checks for +this; see keyboard.c:789 [...]" + "I think I understand, but I can't find the code in keyboard.c. Do +you really mean 'line 789'? Of which revision?" + "Sorry; by 789, I mean 3262 :-P" + -- Chong Yidong and Stefan Monnier + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + + "[...] In my opinion, your change does not either increase or +decrease readability. It's a tossup." + "Uh, setting tem to '', an artificial empty string, in order to have +j incremented once again before breaking out of the finished loop is +readable? + Is this kind of 'readable' synonymous to 'comprehensible with +serious effort', reminiscent of mathematicians' use of 'trivial' as +synonymous with 'provable with serious effort'?" + -- RMS and David Kastrup |