Re: fencepost error in encoding processing

[Richard E. Harke]

On Sunday 15 November 2009 11:32:52 pm Mike Gran wrote:
> > From: Neil Jerram <address@hidden>
> > Yes, it looks good to me too.  My only comment is that it took me a
> > while to see what you meant by 'fencepost'.  I'm not familiar with
> > that expression, and thought it was something to do with building on
> > fencepost.gnu.org.  So you might like to add some further explanation to
> > the commit message when you commit.
>
> Sigh.  I suddenly feel old.  What do they teach you kids these days? ;)
>
> http://www.catb.org/jargon/
>
> http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/F/fencepost-error.html
>
> -Mike

Hey. I am old. Been programming since 1969. This the first time
I've heard of a "fence-post error".

Richard