Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

Post by IIAOPSW » Fri, May 06, 2022, 7:53 AM UTC

AlexMuir wrote: post #144

Took me right back one of many detentions I served at school, when Mr B Swales set us the challenge of finding a grammatically correct English sentence with five ands in a row. The answer was as follows: The landlord of the "Dog and Partridge" pub commissioned a signwriter to letter a new board outside. On looking at the work, the landlord declared that he liked the colour but would prefer more spacing between Dog an…

Post by petters » Fri, May 06, 2022, 7:54 AM UTC

Post by [deleted] » Fri, May 06, 2022, 8:00 AM UTC

IIAOPSW wrote: post #361

AlexMuir wrote: post #144

Took me right back one of many detentions I served at school, when Mr B Swales set us the challenge of finding a grammatically correct English sentence with five ands in a row. The answer was as follows: The landlord of the "Dog and Partridge" pub commissioned a signwriter to letter a new board outside. On looking at the work, the landlord declared that he liked the colour but would prefer more spacing between Dog an…

'''Between (("Dog" and "and") and ("and" and "partridge"))''' for those of you trying to parse along at home.

Post by Cthulhu_ » Fri, May 06, 2022, 8:32 AM UTC

cormacrelf wrote: post #310

bradfitz wrote: post #291

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They weren't reserved words. The lexer just discarded those tokens entirely.

Given the gay abandon with which people like to sprinkle them in fancy sounding sentences, perhaps this was for the best.

Post by dredmorbius » Fri, May 06, 2022, 8:43 AM UTC

Moru wrote: post #314

AlexMuir wrote: post #144

Took me right back one of many detentions I served at school, when Mr B Swales set us the challenge of finding a grammatically correct English sentence with five ands in a row. The answer was as follows: The landlord of the "Dog and Partridge" pub commissioned a signwriter to letter a new board outside. On looking at the work, the landlord declared that he liked the colour but would prefer more spacing between Dog an…

Swedish sort of joke-sentence you get to learn in school: "Far, får får får?" "Nej, får får inte får, får får lamm." English would be: "Father, does sheep get sheep?" "No, sheep does not get sheep, sheep gets lambs." No, google translate does not make it unscathed through that sentence :-)