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Re: Dynamic variable binding


From: Sebastian Tennant
Subject: Re: Dynamic variable binding
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:48:39 +0000
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Quoth "Neil Jerram" <address@hidden>:
> 2008/12/27 Sebastian Tennant <address@hidden>:
>> Quoth Keith Wright <address@hidden>:
>>
>>> "The name of the song is called 'Haddocks' eyes'."  "Oh, that's the
>>> name of the song, is it?"  Alice said.  "No, you don't understand,"
>>> the Knight said, looking a little vexed.  "That's what the name is
>>> _called_."
>>
>> I wonder what song it was to which Haddock's Eyes referred.
>
> I'm not sure if you're being tongue-in-cheek here or not....

I am, and I'm not.

> If you are, the answer (as far as I remember) is that Alice and the
> Knight didn't mention anything about referring to.

Ha! :)  I'm not even going to try and counter that argument.

> If you're not, the answer is that it's the poem beginning (from
> memory) "I saw an aged, aged man, a-sitting on a gate".

That's it!  I've had enough.  I'm going to go home and find my copy.  I
can't bear it any longer :)

Seb





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