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Date:      Fri, 05 Apr 96 07:18:56 PST
From:      "Brett Glass" <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au
Cc:        hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@time.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: Some solutions to disk problems.... I think.
Message-ID:  <9603058287.AA828718488@ccgate.infoworld.com>

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>>I hope you are jesting! Only the most abysmal programmer would have to
> >write ten functions to replace ten table entries.

> You'll need the 10 entries at least in comments for checking.

In that case, there will be more comments than there are in the rest of the
driver! This is a good thing.

> An interesting problem! :-) Given a telephone book sized list of model
> numbers, write an is_in_telephone_book(char const *s) function that is
> significantly smaller than the strings for the model numbers.

That's very easy to do. The model numbers, unlike the telephone book, are
logically arranged.

--Brett




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