Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 09:58:52 -0500
From: Matteo Schmill
Subject: coffee, bagels, and donuts
It's monday again, and that means one thing: it's time for MMC. For your
convenience, the MMC Collective has arranged for there to be donuts,
coffee, and bagels of every kind (except plain, onion, and garlic) in
the computer science lounge this morning, starting at 10am. Please join
your donut eating peers for edibles and thanksgiving weekend traffic
stories this morning.
This week's humor comes from Apple's MPW C compiler through Bruce Hoult
on comp.sys.mac.programmer:
"String literal too long (I let you have 512 characters, that's 3 more
than ANSI said I should)"
"...And the lord said, `lo, there shall only be case or default labels
inside a switch statement'"
"a typedef name was a complete surprise to me at this point in your
program"
"`Volatile' and `Register' are not miscible"
"This struct already has a perfectly good definition"
"Only one parameter per register please "
"type in (cast) must be scalar; ANSI 3.3.4; page 39, lines 10-11 (I know
you don't care, I'm just trying to annoy you)"
"This array has no size, and that's bad"
"Huh ?"
"can't go mucking with a `void *'"
"we already did this function"
"The target of this goto is a label in a block that has an automatic
variable with an initializer"
"This label is the target of a goto from outside of the block containing
this label AND this block has an automatic variable with an initializer
AND your window wasn't wide enough to read this whole error message"
"Call me paranoid but finding `/*' inside this comment makes me
suspicious"
"This function has an explicit return type and deserves a return value"
"You are comparing two structures that have holes in them"
"Too many errors on one line (make fewer)"
"Symbol table full - fatal heap error; please go buy a RAM upgrade from
your local Apple dealer"
"Trailing comma not permitted in enum definition. (This time I'm
letting you off with a warning)"
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