In article <v0313030db836032b2a4e(a)[192.168.123.10]>,
Charlie Summers <charlie(a)lofcom.com> writes:
> At 12:11 AM -0500 12/7/01, Remco Rijnders is rumored to have typed:
>
>> This is counter intuitive though. I know what it says and all that,
>> but it easily leads you to assume that the "uncomment this line" part
>> refers to the line just before it.
>
> It says pretty clearly to uncomment THIS line, not the line before it.
C programs often use the same text, but it means exactly the opposite
thing:
/* HAVE_BLURFL: uncomment this line if your system has the
blurfl() system call. */
/* #define HAVE_BLURFL */
The idiosyncratic syntax of procmail scripts makes the "uncomment this
line" text more ambiguous than it might otherwise be. Sorry, Charlie.
It sucks.
