Silly newbie question - Caret character (^)

Tue Nov 9 02:34:29 EST 2010

In message <slrnidhsbg.g2d.usenet-nospam at guild.seebs.net>, Seebs wrote:

> Not so much turgidity as being WRONG.  Consistently and often.

Wow. And the guy’s written so many books; how does he get away with it?

> (I know too little about C++ to criticize is writings about it, but people
> have told me they're comparable.)

I suppose seeing that “Covers the New International Standard for C+” should 
have set off my alarm bells...