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[Richard Gaskin]

J. Landman Gay wrote:
> simplsol at aol.com wrote:
> 
>> Jacque,
>> I wonder if Scott would come to the same conclusion today.
>>  On modern computers messages can transverse the entire path in 
>> nanoseconds.
>  
> True, though knowing Scott Raney he wouldn't change it even now. 
> However, the reason I changed my mind about the theoretical problem was 
> that I couldn't think of any good reasons why I needed the behavior.

Yeah, I got all up in Scott's face over that once, insisting it was 
absolutely necessary to support.  He asked me for a test case where no 
alternative was available to accomplish a given goal, and darnit I never 
did come up with one.

:)

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