Union redux

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jun 2 08:11:54 PDT 2015


On 6/2/2015 1:34 AM, wobbles wrote:
> On Monday, 1 June 2015 at 22:45:55 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 6/1/2015 2:17 PM, CraigDillabaugh wrote:
>>>>> Not sure. Walter?
>>>>
>>>> I think it's fine.
>>>>
>>> So are you saying you think don't think they are mangled the
>>> same way, but that you don't want to bother arguing.
>>
>> Hah, I should have said that "fine" has the meaning reversed when it is used
>> as a single word sentence. "Seems fine", or "That's fine" indicate approval.
>
> English is a wonderful language :)

Reminds me of a friend who said he enjoyed programming the Z80. I said the Z80 
was exceptionally complicated. He replied that's what he liked about it - he 
could make that processor sing like nobody else.

Anybody could program a simple CPU.

(He wrote software for arcade games back in the 70's.)


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