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From: Paul M. Aoki <aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Bruce Taneja. <aataneja@cs.mtu.edu>
Cc: hartzell@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: " GetAttributeByName " ..
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 94 13:03:31 -0700
Message-ID: <199406272003.NAA03750@nobozo.CS.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9406271948.AA19597@cs.mtu.edu>

aataneja@cs.mtu.edu (Bruce Taneja.) writes:
> I think your explanation is quite clear and obvious and in fact goes
> without saying .. 
>   BUT .. WHY does the user manual do the example in sect.8.4.3. w/o the
>  3rd param .. ??????  Was that a mistake ?? 

well, as you say, this is quite clear and obvious.  yet another case of 
someone not updating the doc after changing an interface..

> and what beats me is why did this example work while it failed for the 
> circle.c ??

one of those mysteries of life.  i wouldn't spend much time thinking 
about it.
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