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In Borland's C++ 4.5 programming manuals, I found:
Functions, Recursive
485, see Recursive Functions.
Infinite Loop
see Infinite Loop.
Recursive Functions
485, see Functions, Recursive.
There was another one about vegetables... but I don't recall it.
I DO tend to highlight the jokes when I find them though.
Note: there is NO actual reference under "Infinite Loop"; the index IS
the example.
>>Deborah Shaw wrote:
>>[snip]
>>6 rewrite; add cross references and the joke (traditionally, every _good_
>> index has a single joke, which the indexer is not obliged to identify)
>[snip]
>
>Interesting -- can you give us some examples of indexers' jokes?
>
>Rikki Mitman
>Speaking strictly for myself.
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