Re: [boost] Review: Boost Coding Guidelines

From: Christopher J. Henrich (chenrich_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-07-16 21:12:20

David Abrahams wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Rodgers" <mark.rodgers_at_[hidden]>
> 
> > > There's something to be said for saying what you mean!
> > >
> >
> > There's also something for said for not saying something that will
> > be interpreted as something you didn't mean.
> 
> I'm not sure I understand that. Could you explain what you meant by it? ;-/
> 
"Be what you would seem to be."  Or, to put it more simply, "Never
imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others
that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you
had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."

-- 
Chris Henrich