CompuServe Messages

Peter, I was confused by the last line of your message to Larry ("Watch out, or I'll tell…"). Now, we all know that the word "watch" is a noun meaning "a portable timepiece", yet this didn't seem to fit the sense of the sentence. I finally figured it out, though, and I think what you wanted to do was cast "watch" to verb, thus: "(verb)Watch out, or I'll tell…" This kind of ambiguous use of critical values can lead to difficult problems in sentence debugging and, even worse – at some future time when you may not even be around to maintain your own message – total prose failure. Please keep the (noun)above in mind when coding future messages. Nick