• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:32:32 -0600

Yes, much better, John.  Perhaps if 
we put the exclamation point, 

No errors fall out!

we also have the surprise indicated 
properly.


Len (now counting every syllable)
http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard

Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti.
Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h


-----Original Message-----
From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@r...]
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 2:25 PM
To: Bullard, Claude L (Len)
Cc: Rick Jelliffe; xml-dev@l...
Subject: Re: Haiku


Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:

 > "Draconian code
 > Parsing corrupt XML
 > Returns no errors."
 >
 > Which would be a surprise I guess, but a bad season.

You could change the third line to

   "No errors fall out."

Which restores the seasonal reference (at least in American English).

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