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From:
Tom Christiansen
Date:
October 4, 1999 12:20
Subject:
Re: loopiness of blocks
Message ID:
199910041919.NAA16325@jhereg.perl.com
http://www.thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de/~vieth/subjects/computer/troff/

Ilya wrote:

     It	 is non-loopiness which is difficult to understand.  Some
     BLOCKs do not loop.  Which BLOCKs loop and which do not is

     a) not documented or documented wrongly;
     b) as experiments show, this does not follow any simple  se-
	mantic.

If it's not simple, then why is it nearly universally understood,
as well as unchanged over the last  dozenish  years?   Also,  why
have  you  waited  so very long to blow a gasket over it, and why
are you the first?  I assert that there is  nothing  to	 be  con-
cerned	about here, that you shouldn't be flustered, and that the
whole thing should be forgotten.  It's very  simple  stuff.   I'm
sorry that you don't understand it.

--tom

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