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From: tony cooper on 1 Mar 2010 08:35 On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 04:51:09 -0800 (PST), "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim(a)verizon.net> wrote: >> >Don't be ridiculous. Washington's Birthday is February 22 (Gregorian), >> >and Presidents' Day was observed on Feburary 15. >> >> Your foot's bleeding again. �Have the bullet removed before the wound >> festers. >> >> Washington's Birthday was officially shifted to the third Monday in >> February by the Uniform Monday Holiday Act in 1971. �The federal >> holiday has never officially been changed to President's Day. >> >> The change was made 39 years ago. �You've never noticed? > >In some states, we think Lincoln was pretty important, too. > >We note that you moved to a part of the country where Lincoln is >despised. > If there's an anti-Lincoln sentiment in Florida I'm not aware of it. To be honest about it - and I should be when Abe is involved - Lincoln really isn't the subject of many conversations around here. Is your "We" an insular "We" or a Royal "We"? For what group do you speak? New Yorkers, linguists, or generally-considered-to-be-potty cross-posters? -- Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
From: Peter T. Daniels on 1 Mar 2010 08:45 On Mar 1, 8:25 am, "J. Clarke" <jclarke.use...(a)cox.net> wrote: > On 2/28/2010 2:09 PM, David Harmon wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:56:25 -0500 in alt.usage.english, tony cooper > > <tony_cooper...(a)earthlink.net> wrote, > >> As far as I can tell, the only employers that are closed on > >> President's Day are government offices, schools, and banks. To the > > > There is no such holiday as "President's Day" to US government offices. > >http://www.opm.gov/Operating_Status_Schedules/fedhol/2010.asp > > While that is a true statement, it does not alter the fact that the post > office was closed on that date. Welcome to the world of a.u.e. nitpickery.
From: Peter T. Daniels on 1 Mar 2010 08:47 On Mar 1, 8:35 am, tony cooper <tony_cooper...(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 04:51:09 -0800 (PST), "Peter T. Daniels" > > > > > > <gramma...(a)verizon.net> wrote: > >> >Don't be ridiculous. Washington's Birthday is February 22 (Gregorian), > >> >and Presidents' Day was observed on Feburary 15. > > >> Your foot's bleeding again. Have the bullet removed before the wound > >> festers. > > >> Washington's Birthday was officially shifted to the third Monday in > >> February by the Uniform Monday Holiday Act in 1971. The federal > >> holiday has never officially been changed to President's Day. > > >> The change was made 39 years ago. You've never noticed? > > >In some states, we think Lincoln was pretty important, too. > > >We note that you moved to a part of the country where Lincoln is > >despised. > > If there's an anti-Lincoln sentiment in Florida I'm not aware of it. > To be honest about it - and I should be when Abe is involved - Lincoln > really isn't the subject of many conversations around here. That says something right there. > Is your "We" an insular "We" or a Royal "We"? For what group do you > speak? New Yorkers, linguists, or generally-considered-to-be-potty > cross-posters? If you have so much trouble interpreting simple English, why do you hang around a.u.e.? The "we" are the residents of New York and Illinois.
From: James Silverton on 1 Mar 2010 09:39 jmfbahciv wrote on Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:37:01 -0500: > Peter Moylan wrote: >> jmfbahciv wrote: >>> James Silverton wrote: >> >>>>> You always could "start" at numbers other than one. Or >>>>> are you talking about the actual memory assigned to the >>>>> array? >>>> Yes, there were ways of doing that but when you defined an array >>>> with, say, >>>> >>>> DIMENSION A(100) >>>> >>>> The array elements were A(1) to A(100). >>>> >>>> I think it was Fortran77 where, say, >>>> >>>> REAL (0:99) :: A >>>> >>>> became a valid declaration. >>>> >>> Thanks. I swear I read the 77 ANSI proposal but I don't >>> remember this stuff. That one had to cause bugs. >> >> I've never used Fortran 77, but I don't see how that would >> cause bugs. If the array bounds have to be declared, the >> compiler can insert checks for subscripts being out of >> bounds, and in fact that is what is done in most of the >> modern programming languages I know something about. > Those checks are usually done at compile time, not runtime. Your > FORTRAN example implies that indexing doesn't have to be an integer. > That's what I was thinking about when I made the > statement about "had to cause bugs". Someday I should reread the 77 > standard again. The REAL statement refers to the contents of the array, You could also have, say, INTEGER (-33:33) :: A. I believe Fortran90 allows non integer indices but how they worked, I don't know, since I only scanned a book on that. I had been using C and C++ for a while then. Fortran compilers did not check for "out of bounds" errors as far as I remember. -- James Silverton Potomac, Maryland Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not
From: J. Clarke on 1 Mar 2010 10:33
On 3/1/2010 8:35 AM, tony cooper wrote: > On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 04:51:09 -0800 (PST), "Peter T. Daniels" > <grammatim(a)verizon.net> wrote: > >>>> Don't be ridiculous. Washington's Birthday is February 22 (Gregorian), >>>> and Presidents' Day was observed on Feburary 15. >>> >>> Your foot's bleeding again. Have the bullet removed before the wound >>> festers. >>> >>> Washington's Birthday was officially shifted to the third Monday in >>> February by the Uniform Monday Holiday Act in 1971. The federal >>> holiday has never officially been changed to President's Day. >>> >>> The change was made 39 years ago. You've never noticed? >> >> In some states, we think Lincoln was pretty important, too. >> >> We note that you moved to a part of the country where Lincoln is >> despised. >> > > If there's an anti-Lincoln sentiment in Florida I'm not aware of it. > To be honest about it - and I should be when Abe is involved - Lincoln > really isn't the subject of many conversations around here. Florida is a bit different from the rest of the South in terms of its history--while technically it was a slave state it wasn't admitted to statehood until 20 years or so before the Civil War and prior to that time it had been a refuge for escaped slaves, so Floridians never had much of a problem with Lincoln. > Is your "We" an insular "We" or a Royal "We"? For what group do you > speak? New Yorkers, linguists, or generally-considered-to-be-potty > cross-posters? > > |