Path: news.cs.au.dk!not-for-mail From: John Cowan Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: tron - X11 multi-player game (Long) Date: 6 Apr 2000 14:35:14 -0000 Organization: Reuters Health Information Lines: 22 Approved: mailtonews@cs.au.dk Distribution: world Message-ID: <20000406143514.17716.qmail@noatun.mjolner.dk> Reply-To: John Cowan NNTP-Posting-Host: daimi.cs.au.dk X-Trace: xinwen.cs.au.dk 955031731 15092799 255.255.255.255 (6 Apr 2000 14:35:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@cs.au.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Apr 2000 14:35:31 GMT Xref: news.cs.au.dk comp.lang.beta:12292 Alf-Ivar Holm wrote: > > (That last part of the patch is a workaround for a thinko we > > have in the find method in BETA 5.0 and later. > > A "thinko"? Have I been away from BETA for too long or is there some > generic terminology I am missing? From the Jargon File: (http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon) thinko /thing'koh/ n. [by analogy with `typo'] A momentary, correctable glitch in mental processing, especially one involving recall of information learned by rote; a bubble in the stream of consciousness. Syn. braino; see also brain fart. Compare mouso. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)