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Re: .sub.domain matching problem in client_access

From: James Garrison (jhgathensgroup.com)
Date: Tue Jul 13 2004 - 15:05:05 CDT

I give up. Your insistence on your own interpretation without
considering the possibility of ambiguity in a non-formal language
like English is disheartening. This is not C or Java. It's
English and you can't take "instead of" totally out of the
context in which it appeared, assign it a formal definition,
and expect everyone else who reads it to guess what you meant.
It can take shades of meaning depending on context. English
is not a context-free language. Read rogerk's posting on this
thread.

Wietse Venema wrote:

> Sorry, "instead of" implies exclusion. This is no harder than the
> difference between it's (it is) and its (possessive form).
>
> I'll look into this the next time I make a dumbing down pass over
> the documentation.
>
> Wietse
>

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