Tony Firshman wrote:
> 
> On Jan 10, at 09:11 | Jan10, Ade Vickers wrote:
> 
> > Tony Firshman wrote: 
> > 
> >> 
> >> That reminds me of a shaggy dog story (slightly amended)  
> as to why 
> >> there was a dead person in the shower surrounded by empty shampoo 
> >> bottles:
> >> 
> >> 1 Wet hair
> >> 2) Apply shampoo and rub in
> >> 3) Rinse
> >> 4) Repeat
> >> 
> >> The dead guy was a QL programmer.
> >> 
> > 
> > Surely in that case the instructions would have needed to be:
> > 
> > REPeat
> >   Wet_Hair
> >   Apply_shampoo_and_rub_in
> >   Rinse
> > END REPeat
> > 
> > ?
> > 
> > (line numbers ommitted because life's too short)
> > 
> > Cheers!
> > Ade. 
> > 
> > 
> Pedant (8-)#
> 
> (Pot calling the kettle black).
> 

The sad thing is, I really had to rack my brains to remember the repeat/end
repeat structure... It's been far too long since I used SuperBASIC in anger.

But yes, it was a bit of a pedant call, sorry (is there a "sheepish grin"
emoticon?)

Cheers!
Ade.


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