Fight! (Re: When is a cast not a cast?)

[Blair P. Houghton]

In article <10282 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <2890 at buengc.BU.EDU> bph at buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>->What can one legally do with it?
>-What one can legally do between (consenting) integers?
>->(Apparently, subtracting r is legal?  What are the official criteria?)
>-Ask yer second-grade teacher, or get another career.
>
>You've managed to convince me (and probably others) that you don't
>have an inkling what it takes to specify programming language semantics.

You've proved to me (and long ago probably to others) that you lack a sense
of humor, and have an ego that bruises like bananas.

As for specifying semantics, I'm out of practice with such things.
I even had to look up the proof and conditions for

	f  (x,y) = f  (x,y)
	 xy	    yx

last night.

				--Blair
				  "...and I can remember doing that
				   proof in Calc III..."