Is that forwards first or backwards first? (Re: unintuitive for-loop behavior)
Gregory Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Oct 3 17:48:14 EDT 2016
BartC wrote:
> On 03/10/2016 12:53, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
>
>> Well, it could be worse. This layout is pretty traditional:
>>
>> 1 3 5
>> | | |
>> +--+--+
>> | | |
>> 2 4 R
>
> Yes, you get a funny grinding sound when attempting to change from 5th
> to '6th' at 70mph/110kph. Fortunately it doesn't actually go into reverse.
Yes, my previous car had that layout. I never actually
tried to go from 5 to R at speed, so I don't know
what it would have sounded like, but I know from the
service manual that it had a mechanism to prevent it
from happening.
--
Greg
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