On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 08:32:08AM -0500, David Abrahams wrote:
Christoph Ludwig <cludwig@cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> writes: [...]
If you parse above sentence as
When source and destinations un-cv types are the same or [are] base/derived [, then] direct initialization and copy initialization are the same (per 8.5/14/4/2) and this fact was (viciously) exploited by the old auto_ptr.
then it seems perfectly comprehensible to me.
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I thought both ellipses
?? IIUC, this is an ellipsis:
...
That's one possible meaning of "ellipsis".
and I don't see any above. Maybe ellipsis really means "omission"...
Well, back from my English lessons in school I remembered "ellipsis" as a technical term from linguistics. And the online Merriam-Webster (which I actually consulted before posting my last mail) seems to agree: It lists the omission of words from a sentence under point (1a): http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=ellipsis If you suggest that "omission" would have been less likely to cause misunderstandings then I won't argue. But please, let's stop here. I had no intentions of starting an OT thread about the meaning of words. I only pointed out how to parse Rani's sentence in order to allow your technical discussion to go on. Christoph -- http://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/TI/Mitarbeiter/cludwig.html LiDIA: http://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/TI/LiDIA/Welcome.html