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From:
Joshua N Pritikin
Date:
October 4, 1999 10:24
Subject:
Re: loopiness of blocks
Message ID:
19991004132405.Y20034@eq1062.wks.na.deuba.com
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 01:09:40PM -0400, ilya@math.ohio-state.edu wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 09:51:56AM -0700, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:
> > >Note also that the only mentioning of "block by itself" (in perlsyn)
> > >is self-contradictory, thus does not help a tiny bit.
> > 
> > It seems to be a case of "Ilya's confusion" or "missing documentation",
> > not "wrong documentation".
> 
> Pity that you cannot distingush "missing documentation" from "wrong
> documentation".  What you wrote is *wrong*, see my example.
> 
> About "my confusion".  What exactly do you mean here?

I am watching this thread and I am somewhat baffled by Ilya's direction
of argument.  Usually I like Ilya's ideas but I've not found the
loopiness of blocks difficult to understand.

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