In <[email protected]>, on 04/07/2013
at 11:35 AM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> said:
>A completely different topic, but sequence numbers are obviously (I
>think. Am I wrong?) entirely a vestigial organ left from the days of
>punched cards.
You're wrong; sequence numbers are still useful, especially when
correcting errors detected by a compiler. Further, the degree to which
a feature is no longer useful is rarely obvious.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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