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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Jan Christoph Nordholz
  • Date: 2008-05-26 22:09:44 UTC
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* Remove a considerable number of files from the package
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<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Answer to Exercise 64</TITLE></HEAD>
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<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">
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<TABLE><TR><TD Valign="top"><IMG SRC="../icons/exercise.gif" ALT="??"><TD bgcolor="#FAA89B"><B>ANSWER TO EXERCISE 64</B><TR><TD><TD>
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<P>
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<PRE>
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Global c_warned = false;
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Class  Cherub
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  with parse_name
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       [ i j flag;
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         for (flag=true:flag:flag=false)
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         {   j=NextWord();
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             if (j=='cherub' or j==self.name) flag=true;
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             if (j=='cherubs' &#38;&#38; (~~c_warned))
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             {   c_warned=true;
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                 parser_action=##PluralFound; flag=true;
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 print "(I'll let this go once, but the plural of cherub is cherubim.)^";
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             }
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             if (j=='cherubim')
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             {   parser_action=##PluralFound; flag=true; }
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             i++;
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         }
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         return i-1;
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       ];
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</PRE>
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Then again, Shakespeare even wrote "cherubins'' in 'Twelfth Night',
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so who are we to censure?
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</TABLE>
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<HR>Back to <A HREF="../section25.html#ex64">the exercise in section 25</A><HR>
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<SMALL><I>Mechanically translated to HTML from third edition as revised 16 May 1997. Copyright &#169; Graham Nelson 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997: all rights reserved.</I></SMALL></BODY></HTML>