Stupid little iota of an idea

Andrej Mitrovic andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com
Thu Feb 10 19:28:59 PST 2011


On 2/11/11, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:
> "Andrej Mitrovic" <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:mailman.1476.1297391467.4748.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>> What the hell does "to!" have to do with anything. Disregard my last
>> post, it's obviously 3 AM and I'm talking gibberish.
>>
>
> I just meant that "iota" looks a lot like (spaces added for clarity) "i   to
> a". In other words, the first time I ever saw "iota", I confused it for the
> old C function that converts an integer to an ASCII string. It may very well
> have been 3am for me at the time ;)
>

Oh, sorry if it appeared I quoted you, but I wasn't quoting you I was
quoting myself and my silly to!range thingy.

I still don't even know what iota stands for. Is it an abbreviation?
It sounds like a word that came out of nowhere.


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