On 07/01/2012 06:29 PM, Ian Collins wrote:
> On 07/ 2/12 10:22 AM, James Kuyper wrote:
>> On 07/01/2012 05:31 PM, Barry Schwarz wrote:
>>> On Sun, 1 Jul 2012 21:26:20 +0000 (UTC), Ike Naar
>>> <> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2012-06-29, James Kuyper<> wrote:
>>
>> [Restored context:]
>>>>> I thought you said you were using C? This looks like C++, a different,
>>>>> though closely related language. You'll get better answers about such
>>>>> things by going to comp.lang.c++. ... Also, do you realize
>>>>> that you'd get a similar result by writing
>>
>> ....
>>>>> cout<< 55<< "\n";
>>>>>
>>>>> It would also be more idiomatic to use endl rather than "\n".
>>>>
>>>> It's not the same thing. "\n" outputs a newline,
>>>> std::endl output a newline and performs a flush.
>>>
>>> This actually works in a C program???
>>
>> No, it was a comment referring to C++ code, as you can tell from the
>> restored context quoted above.
>
> Sense of humour MIA?
Usenet newsgroup messages lack a lot of the signals that normally help
identify jokes, such as tone of voice or body language. That's why
smileys were invented. Without a smiley, his humor (if it was indeed so
intended) was not easily distinguishable from a failure to pay attention
to the context, an every day (indeed, every minute) event on usenet.
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