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Only a six month guarantee? What did you buy this SEMESTER?
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Correct answer, you are up tomorrow. 
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Very much an American term 
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Surprisingly, it's archaic English that we stole from the Germans, who pinched it from the Latin semestris meaning "half-yearly", from sex (six) and mensis (a month).
The Left Ponders then corrupted it into their education system to mean "15 to 18 weeks of schooling"
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Mmm.. since when has 15 to 18 weeks been six months ?
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Actually,
@OriginalGriff has his head up in the clouds. But he should have gone higher and reached for the moon.
Semester[^]
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That's better than I'm usually accused of having it ... 
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PREACH IT RANDOR PREACH!!! 
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You bloody fool. That table alone gives him a fortnight of potential CCC clues!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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DRHuff wrote: That table alone gives him a fortnight
Maybe, he's also got many months before the next partial eclipse[^] passes over his home. Looks to be around the .43 zone.
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I did say "corrupted"
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I get the and condition for as an anagram indicator, but what's warranty doing in there other than to make it read well?
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Yeah,
Greg Utas wrote: make it read well?
Exactly. It's there to make it less Ximenean.
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So the binary length shown in two nibbles indicates that you use two words from the clue?
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Cryptic crossword puzzles have the length of the word at the end. Using binary was my way of making it a bit harder for the non-programmers. There are quite a few here in the Lounge.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Most probably asked allready hundred time...
VS gives a lot of warnings and hints. Hints like 'put this and that in curly brackets or not', what else.
Why the hell VS can't give me a hint for really important things like 'pay attention you are using a class IDisposable' keep in mind to use it in a using block?
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Ok, ok: But maybe then at least if I hover over the class name in VS, at least show me explicitely that it is IDisposable 
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Only a noob's question
modified 11-Jan-22 17:21pm.
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Probably because most of the time IDisposable objects are persisted for some time: for example, the Winforms Control class implements IDisposable, and Form is derived from that. You don't want a "Oi!" every time you add a form to your project, or a control to your form!
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I agree on that. So the next question: Is it really impossible for the compiler to give me a hint when IDisposable is not used in a using block or not disposed explicitely? Most probably very hard, but not sure wheter it is impossible.
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I think I found the answer by myself 
if (random) obj.Dispose();
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The compiler can't - it can't keep track of objects that are created at run time and passed into / out of methods.
A simple example: create a disposable class in a method, return it as an object, and the compiler can't trace it any further as an IDisposable instance.
It would probably be possible to work it out within a method if the instance never leaves it, but that's non-trivial as well as the instance could be added to an array or other collection which could be part of a class instance which is returned by the method.
There are a lot of ways for the compiler to get it wrong and be more annoying than mixing tabs and spaces in Python ... 
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OriginalGriff wrote: be more annoying than mixing tabs and spaces in Python ...
I didn't think this (annoyance) was possible. 
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OTH: GC is able to detect not longer in use objects. Why not the same for IDisp?
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Because it's not important.
Frequently I wrap an IDisposable object in another class and dispose of it when I dispose of the wrapper object, no big deal. I wouldn't want to have a warning I would have to disable to avoid an error when I compile with warnings as errors.
There are bigger bugs to fry.
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But in case you use a class from a library: You really always check wheter it is IDisposable or not?
In my case it was ManagementObjectSearcher from System.Management.
To check you need to go back inhertitance until you end in Object or yes maybe before in IDisposable
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Ah, well, I rarely use third-party rubbish anyway. Or VS.
Put it in a using and see if it compiles.
Or use Intellisense to see if it has a Dispose.
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Intellisense, yes that would be nice. No idea where Intellisense shows it is IDisp.
Btw. third-party rubbish like ManagementObjectSearcher
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