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Old October 22nd 09, 12:14 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Peter Dohm
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Default an interesting in flight experiment

"Dylan Smith" wrote in message
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On 2009-10-21, Martin X. Moleski, SJ wrote:
Note the missing closing paren at the end of that sentence.

I know from bitter experience what a missing paren or semicolon
does to code. (


But under normal circumstances, the compiler picks it up and stops
with a compile error.

On the other hand, writing "=" where you actually meant "==" can cause
a complete new world of hurt with some compilers :-)

LISP isn't really a complier, but...