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in thread Anybody use !!

Typing "confuse" in Google, first hit:

1. Cause (someone) to become bewildered or perplexed.
2. Make (something) more complex or less easy to understand.

So yes, I would say that this is more complex or less easy to understand.

I am not bewildered, if that is what you meant.

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Re^4: Anybody use !!
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Dec 30, 2010 at 08:53 UTC

    You evade my point.

    Are you, personally confused by what return !!$rv; does?

    Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
    "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
    In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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      No.
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        I take it you've guessed where this is going, but I'll spell it out anyway.

        If you've learnt to understand it, why do you assume others will be unable to?

        This attitude always reminds of those news reports on some scientific story where the reporters dance all around the subject using dozens of words trying to avoid the one word that exactly describes what they are trying to say, but they feel is "too difficult for the general public".

        If they just used the word, anyone interested enough would look it up. Anyone else probably won't listen to the attempts to avoid it anyway.

        Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
        "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
        In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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