Re: Unknown construction

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:36:50 -0700, Richard Maine posted:

Ron Ford <ron@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:32:33 GMT, Jörgen Tegnér posted:

NPTS=MAX(NPTS,2)

The function is called as
X=BVP_LINSPACE(A,B,NSUB+1)
This together with an earlier declaration on NSUB as
INTEGER, PARAMETER :: NSUB=999
seems to cause the problem.

I don't see a problem here, other than my first opinion, which is that this
is hard to call in a meaningful manner.

It is pretty explicitly illegal. I don't feel like dragging out the
standard citations, as this one is too trivial for the citations to be
"interesting".

he [Richard, aka me] tends to misspell with verbs in past
tense. "Caled" is not a terrorist, but should inspire you to the word
"Aufrufer."

I'll plead guilty to the typo, but I'll claim that you got the incorrect
generalization. Carefully reading enough of my posts to get the right
generalization would be pretty boring, it's true. I'll claim not to have
a particular spelling problem with past tense. Double letters is one of
my weak areas in spelling, which one could probably correctly deduce
with sufficient study; I've studied my own mistakes enough to know that.
But I also know this one isn't a case of that. "Called" isn't a word
that I would never misspell. Mistyping is another matter.

I'm somewhat relieved that you do not insist that "Caled" was a indeed a
terrorist. Were it not so with our Kremlin of constant, official lies.


In about the past decade, my typing has gone downhill a lot. Something
about the hand-eye coordination. I can recognize a couple of pretty
common patterns in it. The fingers don't always seem to hit the keys in
quite the order that I intend them to. I thus make lots of letter
transpositions. (I really hate it that I so often type "teh"; trust me
that it is not intentional chat-speak spelling). Blanks are particularly
prone to come a character too early. The shift key is prone to "stick"
down long enough to capitalize two letters instead of one. Hitting one
key off is common (as in hitting s instead of d, which can also look
like a problem with past tense). Sometimes a key just doesn't depress
quite enough to register at all. That latter one was the case here. It
fairly often hits doubled letters, which might mislead one in diagnosis
because I do have a long-standing weakness in spelling in that area in
addition to the more recent weakness in typing.

Your typing is consistent. Your usual error is the transposition: teh. It
doesn't throw the reader much and is the obvious error for a proofer. I
actually possess all of your posts over the last year in a single,
searchable text file. I think the "caled" error is usually the formation
of the gerund.


Alas, this newsreader doesn't integrate with a spell checker. That's one
of several things I dislike about it. But I like other things and, at
least for now, I stick with it. I've kept my eyes open for alternatives,
but so far, I haven't liked any of the ones I've tried well enough to
switch. (Yes, I've got a pretty good idea what is available and have
tried most of them; I'm not soliciting suggestions, partly because that
would wander too far off-topic for the newsgroup, and partly because
I've probably already tried the ones people would mention).

No one is going to troll out Richard Maine from clf for lack of topicality.
What news client are you using? If you post questions in
news.software.readers , I can guarantee a helpful response.
--
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth
knowing.
H. L. Mencken
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