Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!chinet!dag From: dag@chinet.UUCP (Daniel A. Glasser) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: C blocks Message-ID: <1990@chinet.UUCP> Date: 15 Dec 87 16:19:30 GMT References: <470@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <1966@chinet.UUCP> <463@trantor.quintus.UUCP> Reply-To: dag@chinet.UUCP (Daniel A. Glasser) Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix Lines: 30 In article <463@trantor.quintus.UUCP> jabir@quintus.UUCP (Jabir Hussain) writes: >In article <1966@chinet.UUCP>, dag@chinet.UUCP (Daniel A. Glasser) writes: >> Pity Bliss is almost a dead language outside of the walls of DEC. >> I think it may be dying inside the walls too. > >well, you know what they say: Bliss is Ignorance !-) Actually, what they say is "...Bliss is Ignorance is Bliss is Ignorance is Bliss is Ignorance is..." In my DEC days, some freinds of mine in the Methods and Tools group at Spitbrook had teeshirts with this wrapped around the middle. >(ok, so i wanted to see my name in print :-)) Well, now you have! Now for a bit of text to satisfy inews... In C, the following is effectivly a no op, it does something in bliss -- Anybody care to guess what? (A is a scalar) A = A; -- Daniel A. Glasser ...!ihnp4!chinet!dag ...!ihnp4!mwc!dag ...!ihnp4!mwc!gorgon!dag One of those things that goes "BUMP!!! (ouch!)" in the night.