for / while else doesn't make sense

Rustom Mody rustompmody at gmail.com
Thu May 26 03:44:59 EDT 2016


On Thursday, May 26, 2016 at 12:24:28 PM UTC+5:30, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
> Rustom Mody writes:
> 
> > On Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 4:18:02 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> ...
> >> instead of ASCII, national 7-bit character set variants were being
> >> used.  For example, you might see Pascal code like this:
> >> 
> >>    ä return the net å
> >>    ret := grossÄunitÅ * grossRate
> >> 
> >> <URL: http://www.aivosto.com/vbtips/charsets-7bit.html>
> ...
> > Thanks to this (sub)thread Ive added a new section: "Lemma: 7=8" here
> > http://blog.languager.org/2014/04/unicode-and-unix-assumption.html
> 
> There may be a small inaccuracy at the point where you refer to
> Latin[1-15]. There are 15 parts to ISO-8859, numbered from 1 to 16 (with
> part 12 abandoned), but their numbers are not in synch with the Latin-N
> nicknames. In particular, Latin-9 is 8859-15, while 8859-9 is Latin-5.
> Some of the 8859-N are not Latin-anything.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859
> 
> This important detail should fit well in your narrative :)

Suggestions incorporated -- tnx



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