Nadav Har'El
Fri, 26 Oct 2001 01:28:32 -0700
On Fri, Oct 26, 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote about "[Haifux] Re: My New Signature
re-factored.":
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Kohn Emil Dan wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here is my contribution to the noise on this mailing list:
> >
> > As a person with far more narrower horizons than many people on this list,
> > here is how I understood Shlomi's signature:
> >
>
> One righteous man in Sadome ... Excellent!
Ok. So I see now you decided to take "not" as C's "!" operator. Indeed
in C, "not not B" (!!B) is B only for B=0 or B=1, and is different otherwise.
So this is just another example of my (long, boring) posting about how the
answer to your "quesion" depends on what class of objects this A and B
come from, and how "not" and "is" are defined.
One of the features of a good joke is that it doesn't hide the punchline
in a pile of complexity, and doesn't take an hour to understand or explain.
Your "joke" has so many possible meanings, and so ambigous, that it is
almost impossible to figure out why you thought it was interesting (let alone
funny). Some of us don't have C's notion of "not" etched into our brain as
the "obvious" choice for a "not" (I've been programming in C for 17 years,
and still I consider its "not" an implementation detail, not some sort of
deep meaningful definition).
So why not rephrase your question as something like
"How come in C, !!a is not always the same as a?"
Still not very funny, but much easier to understand. Arguably it is as funny
(or not funny) as my "in fortran, god is real unless declared an integer"
signature - meaningful only to people who know the language, but other people
immediately understand why "they don't get it", and don't try thinking for
an hour why it should have been funny.
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