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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: do { quit; } else { }
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:07:56 -0700
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bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

> On 09/04/2025 23:07, Tim Rentsch wrote:
>
>> bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>>
>>> On 09/04/2025 00:27, Tim Rentsch wrote:
>>>
>>>> bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>>> If you want to make a point or ask a question about C code,
>>>>>> SHOW THE CODE.  And show all of it.  Don't make people guess by
>>>>>> showing only some of the code or by giving just a description.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm showing the code but you keep snipping it!  [...]
>>>>
>>>> No, I don't.  Don't be so obtuse.  I included the code I was
>>>> originally commenting on, in my first followup.  My comment about
>>>> showing code was about your second posting.  Let me repeat the
>>>> two important paragraphs (quoted above) taken from that posting:
>>>>
>>>>>>> I get an incompatible error (from the example you snipped)
>>>>>>> even when I remove both struct tags.
>>>>
>>>> The phrase "even when I remove both struct tags" describes code, it
>>>> doesn't show the code.
>>>
>>> I showed this example a few lines later [in an earlier posting]
>>> which has both struct tags omitted:
>>
>> There is a simple lesson that you need to learn:
>
> Please don't be patronising.  We are not kids in your PL class.

I'm sorry you feel that way.  I was trying to be helpful.