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Tomás Ó hÉilidhe wrote:
> On Mar 29, 1:07 pm, Eric Sosman <esos...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> The English language's habit of overloading tokens, when
>> coupled with its wavering rules of binding strength, sometimes
>> produce an ambiguity. By "data and function pointers" I did
>> not mean "{noun:data} and {adjective:function noun:pointers},"
>> but "{adjective:data} and {adjective:function} {noun:pointers},"
>> parsing as "(data and function) pointers," not as "data and
>> (function pointers)." Or, in that tricksy English, "data
>> pointers and function pointers."
>>
>> Sorry for the confusion.
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> Strangely enough, I myself would have used your "tricksy" form, both
> in written and spoken language.
I see you also like tautological forms :)
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Ian Collins.
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