course in divination.
There'd be quite a sensational market for that, you know."
-- Emilio Lopes and David Kastrup
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ "[T]here may be a good reason since the code explicitly checks for
+this; see keyboard.c:789 [...]"
+ "I think I understand, but I can't find the code in keyboard.c. Do
+you really mean 'line 789'? Of which revision?"
+ "Sorry; by 789, I mean 3262 :-P"
+ -- Chong Yidong and Stefan Monnier
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ "[...] In my opinion, your change does not either increase or
+decrease readability. It's a tossup."
+ "Uh, setting tem to '', an artificial empty string, in order to have
+j incremented once again before breaking out of the finished loop is
+readable?
+ Is this kind of 'readable' synonymous to 'comprehensible with
+serious effort', reminiscent of mathematicians' use of 'trivial' as
+synonymous with 'provable with serious effort'?"
+ -- RMS and David Kastrup