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Re: [v3] PATCH: PR 20599 (variadic templates, take two) (4/4)


> > >is this in an included file? You don't want to open an unnamed
> > >namespace there.
> > > 
> > >
> > just to relax a bit, I want to remark once more (in public this time) 
> > how this english construct sounds strange to the italian ears: we 
> > associate *wanting* ("volere") to what one spontaneously wants, likes. 
> > Then the weirdness: the above sounds as if you are in the process of 
> > deciding what exactly Doug wants! No, either Doug "must", "has to", or 
> > otherwise free will!! ;)
> 
> It's really the same in English, though this is an increasingly common
> idiom; the implication is more like "I'm sure you didn't intend this",
> or "if you understood the consequences you would not want this".

Or, as in NYC: "Don't even THINK of parking here!".


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