Abe Kornelis scripsit: > > The nearest analogy from literature I can think of at the moment is X > > being a grammar text book and Y my essay, which conforms to grammar > > in that text book. Is my essay a derivative of the grammar book? > > Example is too far-fetched. What if Y were a separate book > with extensive treatment of the exercises presented in X ??
Indeed, such a book exists: the _C Answer Book_, by Tondo and Gimpel, provides answers to the exercises in _The C Programming Language_, by Kernighan and Richie. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan "The exception proves the rule." Dimbulbs think: "Your counterexample proves my theory." Latin students think "'Probat' means 'tests': the exception puts the rule to the proof." But legal historians know it means "Evidence for an exception is evidence of the existence of a rule in cases not excepted from." -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
