[Haskell-beginners] [Haskell-cafe] Most C++ compilers will not optimize x^2.0 as x*x but instead will do an expensive ...

[Bardur Arantsson]

On 05/24/2012 04:31 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:19 PM, Bardur Arantsson <spam at scientician.net>wrote:
> 
>> This has come up before -- this KC person probably has a broken mail
>> client which doesn't set appropriate References headers.
>>
> 
> That, however, ignores the rest of it; the lack of references in this case
> forms a pattern with the other things I noted, in that a conversation is
> apparently being held in the form of single observations emitted at the
> point of observation instead of being collected and presented *as* a
> conversation.
> 

Right. I was actually just about to respond to (only) KC in person, but
perhaps unwisely, decided to "hijack" your response to add a little
explanation for everyone.

You are of course right that not quoting context and just randomly
spewing out small bits of text is not really suitable for a mailing list.