[cpp-threads] Editorial comments on the straw man

[Nelson, Clark]

> > In any case, your opinion appears to be that the confusion about
> > "sequence point" is so intense that it has poisoned the 
> word "sequence"
> > past redemption. ...
> 
> That's not quite it.  Having been involved in many 
> unproductive debates
> on the One True Meaning of C's sequence point model, my view is that
> rattling those cages is not a clever thing to do.  If it were possible
> to ensure that historical assumptions - and entrenched 
> positions - could
> be kept out of it, I wouldn't be so happy.

Well, we won't be able to avoid rattling those cages in the process of
clarifying what "sequence point" is really supposed to mean, whether we
use the word "sequence", "happens/occurs", or "blick".

Clark