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Kerry

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Re: What's wrong with "REM"?
« Reply #15 on: September 03, 2008, 07:32:24 AM »


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Re: What's wrong with "REM"?
« Reply #16 on: September 03, 2008, 08:21:04 AM »
I don't expect other people to do my homework , or study for me

When the information in the "manual" is incomplete, or worse, inaccurate, then what ...

Considering in lisp, that expressions are evaluated from inside out, it would make perfect sense to expect that (+ sum a) would produce a value that can be used with rem. Clearly there is an error somewhere, either with the use of addition in a rem statement, or with the values returned by addition of real numbers. Without looking into the lisp engine itself, it would be impossible to know where the problem lies, but suffice to say, this is a problem, and very likely a bug. So to that point, to insist that someone RTFM to find a resolution to a potential bug, is both unhelpful and unwarranted. I guess I expect too much ...
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Re: What's wrong with "REM"?
« Reply #17 on: September 05, 2008, 12:17:53 PM »
Good call Kerry.

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Re: What's wrong with "REM"?
« Reply #18 on: September 05, 2008, 12:23:22 PM »
And for those no English speaking/culture swampers, what this RTFM means?

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Re: What's wrong with "REM"?
« Reply #19 on: September 05, 2008, 12:55:59 PM »
And for those no English speaking/culture swampers, what this RTFM means?

It means, Please Kindly read the documentation… or something like that

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Re: What's wrong with "REM"?
« Reply #20 on: September 05, 2008, 12:56:32 PM »
RTFM is not an appropriate response in this case.
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Re: What's wrong with "REM"?
« Reply #21 on: September 05, 2008, 03:56:53 PM »
And for those no English speaking/culture swampers, what this RTFM means?

Read The Fine Manual
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Re: What's wrong with "REM"?
« Reply #22 on: September 05, 2008, 04:00:19 PM »
 :lmao:

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Re: What's wrong with "REM"?
« Reply #23 on: September 05, 2008, 04:13:57 PM »
OK... it is make sense now, I just sent a letter to my boss using that, waiting for his response...   (instead of regards, i used the rtfm, thanks to you guys!)
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Re: What's wrong with "REM"?
« Reply #24 on: September 05, 2008, 05:26:36 PM »
OK... it is make sense now, I just sent a letter to my boss using that, waiting for his response...   (instead of regards, i used the rtfm, thanks to you guys!)

Was that your current / old boss or the possible future / new boss?

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Re: What's wrong with "REM"?
« Reply #25 on: September 05, 2008, 05:52:25 PM »
OK... it is make sense now, I just sent a letter to my boss using that, waiting for his response...   (instead of regards, i used the rtfm, thanks to you guys!)

Was that your current / old boss or the possible future / new boss?

was joking.... :evil:

I had some fun, at least I laugh today....
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