<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Dec 6, 2011, at 7:23 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "> This assures that files are flushed [...]<br><br>It does not. It _ensures_ that files are flushed. The doco style "affirmative<br>tone" _assures_. The coding practice _ensures_!<br><br>Pedanticly,<br>--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Cameron Simpson<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></blockquote></div><br><div><div>I can assure you that I've ensured that you're fully insured ;-)</div></div><div><br></div><div>Raymond</div></body></html>