Re: Wi-Fi Hotspot Log-in and Apt

2012-05-18 Thread Peter Kruse
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote: Fantastic. A wi-fi hotspot has substituted a redirect to its log-in page for the file requested, serving it with an 200 status header, and so giving the impression that the payload is indeed the requested file. aren't you glad

Re: Stupid Language Designer Tricks

2012-05-18 Thread Michael G Schwern
On 2012.5.15 1:41 PM, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: Otherwise I haven't come across this problem in other major languages... except maybe C. And original C has so many design flaws that the list would become useless. You will have to back that up somehow, laddie. And get offa my lawn. (I can

Re: Stupid Language Designer Tricks

2012-05-18 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
And since you asked, off the top of my head... [ a long list snipped] Now, tell us how you *really* feel about C? In case you didn't guess it yet, I was playing advocatus diaboli in reverse here. (In modernese: trolling.) In other words, your list and argument was good, though many items

Re: Stupid Language Designer Tricks

2012-05-18 Thread Michael G Schwern
On 2012.5.14 9:38 AM, demerphq wrote: On 14 May 2012 14:34, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: I wouldn't mind if it was disabled by default and if I had to explicitly enable it per file, with something like 'no strict cpp'. Couldnt this just be a filter/preprocessor thingee?