On Sep 7, 2009, at 02:32, John Engelhart wrote:
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I'm not going to engage you on this discussion. If that means I'm ignoring your reasonable requests for clarification, I apologize.
However, I do feel the need to acknowledge what I might have previously done wrong ...
I may have misused your term 'base pointer' as you defined/intended it. (I did try to suggest I was using the term very loosely, by using quotes: "base" pointer.) The result demonstrates why these discussions are pointless -- there are multiple terms being used with different strict meanings by different people. A reasonable discussion has to have everyone speaking the same language, and that *never* happens on this subject.
I may have sounded sanctimonious, and if so I apologize. These discussions always end up in rudeness and acrimony (shortly before being moderated out of existence, with no resolution), so I was just trying to save everyone time by jumping straight to the rudeness and acrimony, skipping the intervening steps.
I mistakenly replied to your original post on the wrong list, so I'm posting this in both places. Any further discussion should go back to objc-language. Or maybe there won't be any further discussion.
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