Just a funny incident that happened with me a while ago...

My english is not so good, and I tend to, sometimes, get the meaning of some words in their context, that means in a sentence, without knowing the exact meaning of that word alone.

That said, I'd always read the parse as paste, maybe because of the similarity in letters... so I understood "parse" as "paste" and each time someone wants to "parse the data", I will see it as "paste the data"... until recently while reading a node, I got across a line that looks like "parse the data, do something, and then print it to screen"

Oh! so why this guy wants to print it to screen?? he just parsed it!! So I finally got to the dictionnary and looked up the word "parse", and there it was.. it's not paste... it's to "analyse"..

So the next time someone says parse, be sure that I know what he means :)


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Re: Cut, Copy and Parse
by Sinister (Friar) on Apr 26, 2001 at 21:46 UTC
    As long as you don't paste your dictionary where you where meant to parse it, all is fine I guess... ;-)

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