Most C++ compilers will not optimize x^2.0 as x*x but instead will do an expensive ...

exponentiation and logarithm. So, I believe this C++ versus Haskell versus (your language of choice) is a Penn & Teller misdirection. Whereas, another level of indirection solves everything. -- -- Regards, KC

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:47 PM, KC
exponentiation and logarithm. So, I believe this C++ versus Haskell versus (your language of choice) is a Penn & Teller misdirection. Whereas, another level of indirection solves everything.
Is it me or is this style of message — content broken between subject and body, no reference information tying it to the presumed topic (or possibly a /non sequitur/) — better suited to Twitter than a mailing list? -- brandon s allbery allbery.b@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms

On 05/24/2012 04:13 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:47 PM, KC
wrote: exponentiation and logarithm. So, I believe this C++ versus Haskell versus (your language of choice) is a Penn & Teller misdirection. Whereas, another level of indirection solves everything.
Is it me or is this style of message — content broken between subject and body, no reference information tying it to the presumed topic (or possibly a /non sequitur/) — better suited to Twitter than a mailing list?
This has come up before -- this KC person probably has a broken mail client which doesn't set appropriate References headers. @KC: Which mail client are you using? ... and could you please 1) (ideally) use a mail client which doesn't screw up threading, or 2) (less ideally) avoid messing with the subject line so that at least everybody else's mail client has that to go on for threading purposes? Regards,

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Bardur Arantsson
This has come up before -- this KC person probably has a broken mail client which doesn't set appropriate References headers.
That, however, ignores the rest of it; the lack of references in this case forms a pattern with the other things I noted, in that a conversation is apparently being held in the form of single observations emitted at the point of observation instead of being collected and presented *as* a conversation. -- brandon s allbery allbery.b@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms
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