Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261947AbVCaEQu (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:16:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261948AbVCaEQu (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:16:50 -0500 Received: from vms040pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.40]:43394 "EHLO vms040pub.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261947AbVCaEQk (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:16:40 -0500 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 23:16:38 -0500 From: Gene Heskett Subject: Re: [PATCH] embarassing typo In-reply-to: <20050330233820.GA29221@oasissystems.com.au> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: John Pearson Message-id: <200503302316.38887.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Organization: None, usuallly detectable by casual observers MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <200503300053.28553.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <20050330233820.GA29221@oasissystems.com.au> User-Agent: KMail/1.7 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1302 Lines: 36 On Wednesday 30 March 2005 18:38, John Pearson wrote: >On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 12:53:28AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote > >> On Tuesday 29 March 2005 20:40, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: >> >On Tuesday 29 March 2005 16:58, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> >> Well, it's a matter of readability mostly. ?For now at least, >> >> when char is always 8 bytes... >> > >> >Wow, that's one huge char you have there ;) >> >> Yeah, I was gonna ask what language is so complex as to need an 8 >> byte char? >> >> Certainly not an earthly one I'd think ;) > >Might come in handy for Perl 7 Regular Expression syntax... Humm, yes, perl. I'd forgotten that. Would an 8 byte char be enough in that case? >John. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/