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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Top 10 most common hard skills listed on resumes...
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2024 15:52:54 -0700
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Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> On 02/09/2024 23:31, Keith Thompson wrote:
[...]
>> Yes, but what can legally be on the right side of an assignment very
>> often cannot be written on the left.  I don't call that "symmetric".
>
> The symmetry is about when you /do/ legally have the same thing either
> side of '='. That is in contrast to BLISS where the RHS needs an
> explicit deref symbol, but the LHS doesn't.

Thank you for clarifying what you mean by "symmetric".

I won't waste any more time debating it.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
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