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On Sep 14, 2005, at 18:52, Lucas Ackerman wrote:

I dislike the suddenly-popular select( "#", ... ) idiom

I doubt it's popular. But it seems to be the only way to fully enumerate a vararg. Sigh...

because it is
uninformative (no selection is made), complicates select with unrelated
behavior, and misappropriates the # symbol.

Amen to that :)

Cheers

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