From owner-cvs-sbin Sat May 10 10:49:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA13857 for cvs-sbin-outgoing; Sat, 10 May 1997 10:49:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA13849; Sat, 10 May 1997 10:49:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA01876; Sat, 10 May 1997 18:49:08 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 18:49:08 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Chuck Robey cc: Peter Wemm , CVS-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sbin@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ifconfig ifconfig.c ifconfig.h ifmedia.c In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-sbin@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 10 May 1997, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Sat, 10 May 1997, Doug Rabson wrote: > > > On Sat, 10 May 1997, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > > > peter 97/05/10 10:14:54 > > > > > > Modified: sbin/ifconfig ifconfig.c ifconfig.h ifmedia.c > > > Log: > > > Clean up some more. Move parsing of sysctl iflist data into a single > > > place rather than updating the main loop's index variables from within > > > a subroutine and other revolting things like that. Move some more > > > globals into local variables. > > > > I once tried to fix some bugs in a program which had three global > > variables, i, j and k. It used these all over the place for loop > > variables and often changed them in subroutines. It was 'fun' trying to > > figure out the control flow... > > Wasn't that called "Basic" or something? :-) It was C pretending to be Basic. The program was some kind of Boulderdash clone for X, called xbd as I remember. Does anyone know if it still exists? -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891