On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 16:55:03 +1100, Derek Parnell <Derek.Parnell@No.Spam> wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 04:30:07 GMT (02/16/04 15:30:07)
> , Karl Bochert <kbochert@copper.net> wrote:
> 
> > An obvious help (for Windows, at least) is to use a font designed for
> > programming.
> > See
> > www.catexa.com
> > for a mono-spaced font similar to courier that distinguishes 1, l, 0 O
> > It also has outsize punctuation so that perios, colons, braces etc. are
> > visible
> >
> 
> Pity that catexa's been hacked though.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Derek

Thanks for the info -- its been fixed.
Apparently the Ivision BB has a leak, and I had used identical
passwords for it and my site.

Live long and learn little
Karl Bochert

I've changed the language so that floating point values are no longer implicitly converted to integral types.

"Manfred Nowak" <svv1999@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:c0bb5v$238e$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> void main()
> {
>   char[4] foo= "1234";
>   char[]  bar;
>
>   bar.length= 5;
>   bar[0..2]= foo[1.3];
>   printf("%.*s\n", bar);
> }
>
> Would you also recognize it in millions of lines of code?
>
> So long.

davepermen wrote:

[...]
> my argument against this is just one:
> syntax highlighting only highlights correct code properly. incorrect code
> gets quickly visible.

Meanwhile Walter has decided to disallow implicit conversion from floatings to integers. Promptly two messages appeared, that such conversions were detected. For me an indication, that at least the used syntax highlighting was not able to prevent a possible desaster.

So long.