punctuation for a change.

STADIGAD.US.ORACLE.COM (STADIGAD@us.oracle.com)
15 Nov 95 16:08:02 -0800

So, far we are sailing with the idea that punctuation helps.
No doubt. But, like any other typo.(like gramatical or mis-
spelling a word etc.), punctuation mistakes could be drastic.

I present two examples here.


First. Some body wanted to hoist a banner wording:

G O D I S N O W H E R E

But, the actual banner, when rised read:

G O D I S N O W H E R E

Second. One king, who found to his horror that an innocent
man was going to be hanged in minutes from now, has
wanted to send a crisp and urgent message:

H A N G H I M N O T , L E A V E H I M

But insted he scribed, as fate would have it as:

H A N G H I M , N O T L E A V E H I M

And of course, commma killed the man!


NOTE: Be ware of punctuation. It generally
not where it is itended to be.

[
For programmers: Be ware of comments, most of the times
they are either wrong, misplaced, misleading or inadequate.

Example from real life:

xxxx xxxxx,xxxxx ; If every thing is ok
xxxx xxxxx ; then do xxxxxxxx. Returns on failure only.
xxxx xxxxx ; go to error.

But we actually found the code listing in a debugging session as:

xxxx xxxxx,xxxxx ; If every thing is ok
xxxx xxxxx ; go to error.

Beacause some body edited the code, not the comments.!

One Mr. Kalyana Rao, unearthed this beauty and we
stopped believing in comments blindly!
Sorry for, SAkhAchankramaNam.

]


- Syamala Rao
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