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Good point
Over could be got by Aussies/Indians though.
I’m not sure if any other countries use stone as a weight. Didn’t consider it to be honest but would assume people from most countries would Be aware of it
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You're right, that should have been easy.
Fat > Overweight should have been very obvious, yet somehow nobody got it. Kind of makes one realise how distracting other elements can sometimes be!
Also, I don't much care for cricket.
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I actually regretted putting fat in the clue just after I posted as I thought it would be too easy.
I guess six had people going down the words that start with “vi” route
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I tried combinations of vi and hex but couldn't come up with anything.
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Can you explain the six = over for us 'Mericans, please?
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It is a cricket term for six balls being bowled; after which the bowler and wicket keeper switch ends.
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Pompey 3 wrote: Thought it was easy Only if you love cricket and imperial measurements.
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- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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If I recall the DS9 terminology, he's "joined the Great Link".
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butterball
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Delusional?
(Characteristically, "Anorexic" wasn't big enough)
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So what was it?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I think sander should win for his answer
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Impossible. If "yourmother" weighs 6 stone (~38 kg), she is certainly not fat.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Unless she's also very small
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Tiny old lady at the doctor's office:
- Doctor, doctor, it feels as if I am getting smaller and smaller!
- Well, I guess you just have to learn to be a little patient.
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Some of the info was missing, it was meant to say 6 stone per chin
Disclaimer: No offence meant to any real mothers, Pompey's or otherwise.
modified 9-Dec-19 9:13am.
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So C# has "as" which is like an attempted cast. If the cast fails no error is thrown, but the target value is set to null, such like:
string str = obj as string;
A) It's faster than a cast
B) it lets you do two things in one - cast an object and check the object's type.
So it's more efficient than a cast, in .NET
However, it leads to code patterns like
var cc = obj as CodeComment;
if (null != cc)
{
_VisitComment(cc,args, action);
return;
}
var ccu = obj as CodeCompileUnit;
if (null != ccu)
{
_VisitCompileUnit(ccu,args, action);
return;
}
var cd = obj as CodeDirective;
if (null != ccu)
{
_VisitDirective(cd, args, action);
return;
}
C#8? introduced a switch style pattern for this but it's still ugly.
That's why I don't like it.
However,in Slang it is not supported, nor can it be, because the only way to emulate that particular operator (which resolves to a specific IL instruction) is using minor reflection (Type.IsAssignableFrom() ), which is unacceptable here.
And so a lot of my code simply won't parse.
Curse the CodeDOM for being so sparse. I really wish it supported more operators. There are no unary operators, no try-cast (like above) and most of the assign operators are gone as are maybe half the binary expressions available in most languages. It's kind of a bad joke but there's nothing to be done about it now. Microsoft made the standard. Others adhere to it, broken as it is.
I mean, the CodeDOM is useful but it's bloody limited. I wish Roslyn had pluggable support for additional compilers like F# but as far as I know it's strictly C# and VB
Still, it might be useful eventually to make a Roslyn version of slang once it too can run on a phone. But for now I'm stuck with the stodgy old CodeDOM. Though working with Roslyn would mean most of what my code does wouldn't be necessary in the first place.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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And now there is in the newer version:
if (obj is string str)
{
...
} Which - now I've got used to it - I like; it's a good way to limit the scope.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Yup, that's also how I roll now!
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