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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: problem with Pick


On Jul 5, 2007, at 4:16 AM, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote:

>
> On 4 Jul 2007, at 18:38, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote:
>
>>
>> On 3 Jul 2007, at 19:24, J=E1nos wrote:
>>
>>> On Jul 2, 2007, at 6:52 AM, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 1 Jul 2007, at 16:31, Chris Chiasson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Jun 29, 4:40 am, J=E1nos <janos.l... at yale.edu> wrote:
>>>>>> Like barbers who are shaving themselves...  :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> J=E1nos
>>>>>> P.S.  I am hearing someone turning slowly in his grave....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Jun 28, 2007, at 4:26 AM, DrMajorBob wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That's entirely contrary to the documentation, which says that
>>>>>>> Pick
>>>>>>> "picks
>>>>>>> out those ELEMENTS of list for which the corresponding 
>>>>>>> ELEMENT of
>>>>>>> sel is
>>>>>>> True."
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How is a list its own ELEMENT, if English words mean anything?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Bobby
>>>>>
>>>>> LOL
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Actually, there is nothing at all unusual about barbers shaving
>>>> themselves. I am sure lots of barbers do it. Russell's illustration
>>>> (of a variant of his paradox) was about a barber who "shaved
>>>> everyone
>>>> in town who did not shave himself". It would take more than all the
>>>> resourcefulness of Figoro, the barber of Seville, to relate this to
>>>
>>> Figaro
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figaro
>>>
>>> J=E1nos
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Congratulations! My imperfect keyboard control gave your chance
>>
>> La vendetta, oh la vendetta
>> e un piacer serbato ai saggi,
>> l'obliar l'onte, gli oltraggi
>> e bassezza, e ognor vilta.
>>
>> ...
>> Se tutto il codice dovessi volgere,
>> se tutto l'indice dovessi leggere,
>> con un equivoco, con un sinonimo,
>> qualche garbuglio si trovera.
>>
>> (Le Nozze Di Fiagaro, Atto 1, Bartolo's Vendetta Aria).
>>
>> Andrzej Kozlowski=
>>
>
> Figaro ...
>
> Andrzej Kozlowski
> ------------------------------------------
> Your proposition may be good
> But let's have one thing understood --
> Whatever it is, I'm against it!
> And even when you've changed it or condensed it,
> I'm against it.
>
> Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff
> President of Huxley College
>

I saw that, but my thought was that one "kill" is enough for one day :)

J=E1nos


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- Andrzej Kozlowski





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