Martin Weber
2/27/2006 4:29:00 PM
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 01:10:09AM +0900, Logan Capaldo wrote:
>
> On Feb 24, 2006, at 7:56 AM, Martin S. Weber wrote:
>
> >Next thing included is an Integer class
> >whose '+' method works ok if the number is even but does a '-' when
> >the number
> >is odd ? (grmb
>
> I don't know anything about MailRead, but what do you mean in the above?
>
It's a sarcastic analogy for mailread working fine for some kinds of
inputs and just performing plain wrong for other kinds of inputs and the
fact that this fact is just ignored with its inclusion in the standard
distribution.
Would you expect a standard arithmetic package to get exponentation wrong?
Would you expect a standard email parser package to get email headers wrong?
-Martin