Re: Building a linked list

bbound@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Sep 21, 11:44 am, Lew <l...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[a whole bunch of stuff liberally laced with insults]

The term is hardly "common" or I'd surely have run across it before.

You think very highly of yourself, don't you?

And it's plainly not English; looks French or perhaps Spanish, Latin,
or one of those.

French? French?! I suppose you also think that the theme from "CSI: Miami" is by the Beatles.

It's Italian, of course, and a well established denizen of American English.
--
John W. Kennedy
"When a man contemplates forcing his own convictions down another man's throat, he is contemplating both an unchristian act and an act of treason to the United States."
-- Joy Davidman, "Smoke on the Mountain"
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