On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 12:03:30PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 08:10:27AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 03:36:21PM +0200, Jonas Oberhauser wrote: > > > > > > Am 10/20/2023 um 8:13 PM schrieb Paul E. McKenney: > > > > Fair enough in general, but I cannot promise to never confuse people. > > > > This is after all memory ordering. And different people will be confused > > > > by different things. > > > > > > You can say that twice. In fact I suspect this is not the first time you say > > > that :)) > > > > Easy for me to say, "that that that that that that that that that that"! > > This reminds me of a sentence I once heard as an example of > inscrutability. Written without punctuation, it goes: > > Jack when Joe had had had had had had had had had had > the teachers approval. > > Properly punctuated, it says: > > Jack, when Joe had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had > the teacher's approval. > > The context is supposed to be a comparison of the words two students > used in their essays and how their teacher reacted. It actually > makes sense when read carefully. Cute! In contrast, any sensible interpretationof my string of "that"s is pure coincidence. ;-) Thanx, Paul
