Subj : Re: Reversing a signature
To   : comp.programming
From : Richard Heathfield
Date : Wed Sep 14 2005 02:03 am

There

Alan Balmer said:

is.

> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:05:20 +0100, Dave

It's

> <solomons_dad.w.marks_and_whom@oracle.com> wrote:

called

>>Alf P. Steinbach wrote:

rec.

>> > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.

puzzles

>>void f4() {printf("will display?");}
>>void f3() {printf("what this program");}
>>void f2() {printf("you can't figure out");}
>>void f1() {printf("does that mean");}
>>int main() {f1(); f2(); f3(); f4(); return EXIT_SUCCESS;}
> 
> If you would rather play games and "figure out" riddles, I'm sure
> there must be an appropriate newsgroup. This isn't it. BTW, your
> program is missing something. Figure it out.

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He's missing some spaces, a newline, two headers, and (arguably) a keyword. 
The corrected program is as follows:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

void f4(void) {printf("will display?\n");}
void f3(void) {printf("what this program ");}
void f2(void) {printf("you can't figure out ");}
void f1(void) {printf("does that mean ");}
int main(void) {f1(); f2(); f3(); f4(); return EXIT_SUCCESS;}

It could also be argued that "does" should be "Does", and that Usenet 
articles should not be presented in such a way that the presentation needs 
to be "figured out".

-- 
Richard Heathfield
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/2005
http://www.cpax.org.uk
email: rjh at above domain

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