I vaguely remember something about yahoo groups changing the word expression to the word statement. Is this true and do we know why?
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Sophia Brooks - Nov 01, 2002 1:23:18 pm PST #695 of 10000
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Dana - Nov 01, 2002 1:24:27 pm PST #696 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Yes, it's true, and it's some weird programming thing...I want to say Java, but I'm sure ita knows better.
"expression" gets changed to "statement", and anything ending in "eval" gets changed to "review" (i.e., medieval becomes medireview.)
Consuela - Nov 01, 2002 1:26:09 pm PST #697 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Yes, it is true, Sophia. They also change all uses of "eval" to "review", so that "evaluate" becomes "reviewuate".
Has to do with Java commands, or so they explained to me. I think it's crap -- nobody else does it, and it only happens, IIRC, when something goes through YG into a Yahoo mailbox.
I'm sure a more technical person has a better explanation. But it caused much entertainment when friends of mine kept talking about going to the Medireview Fair. Sigh.
X-post-amundo with Dana.
Emily - Nov 01, 2002 1:26:56 pm PST #698 of 10000
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Nutty - Nov 01, 2002 1:27:54 pm PST #699 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
It's a thing in their programming, and yes, under certain circumstances I can't clearly define, about 70% of the time the word "expression" is rendered as "statement" and "-eval-" (any permutation of the word fragment, including "medieval") becomes "-review-". Very annoying.
It can be gotten around by messing with spelling. Personally, I do ex-pression and mediev-al, but others do e.xpression and e!xpression and things like that.
Why do they do it? Because they are dumbasses and are trying to make sure people can't insert code accidentally into emails, so they change 'hot' words that might be code, but they're stupidly indiscriminate.
Sophia Brooks - Nov 01, 2002 1:28:07 pm PST #700 of 10000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Thank you. I was beginning to feel crazy.I am actually reading something on a regular web-site that has statement where expression should be (The statement on his face...). I am guessing it was cut and pasted from a yahoogroups message or something.
Dana - Nov 01, 2002 1:28:37 pm PST #701 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
So it's supposedly been fixed? Hmm.
Consuela - Nov 01, 2002 1:33:55 pm PST #702 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I just sent an email out to test this.
And yes! It's true. "Medieval" came back correctly.
Michele T. - Nov 01, 2002 2:01:35 pm PST #703 of 10000
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Betsy HP - Nov 01, 2002 4:37:23 pm PST #704 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
I was only able to duplicate the problem if I sent mail through a Yahoo group. Simple me-to-me Yahoo mail didn't get bitten.