[Dragaera] Dzur/Jhereg crack? [Some minor Dzur spoilers]

[Jot Powers]

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 06:21:50PM -0700, Maximilian Wilson wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Jot Powers <books at bofh.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 09:57:30AM -0500, Bryan Newell wrote:
> 
> >> Maybe "wipes out" didn't include killing him (just taking his territory,
> >> rackets, etc.), and then later with Mellar out of the way, Terion resumed
> >> his former position?
> >
> > I categorize this under "handwaving".  :)  I think the term "wipes out"
> > would pretty typically mean "finalizes" in standard Jhereg language.
> 
> <awful geek humor>But Jhereg doesn't have deterministic finalizers! If
> you assume that Terion has already been completely wiped by the time
> of /Dzur/ you're relying on implementation-dependent and/or undefined
> behavior. That's just asking for bugs.</awful>

Oh, come on.  If you're going to resort to NULL pointers we
have no hope.  :)

-Jot
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