From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 7 22:51:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09B0637B40D for ; Tue, 7 May 2002 22:51:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0728.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.194.218] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 175KLn-0006Bb-00; Tue, 07 May 2002 22:50:56 -0700 Message-ID: <3CD8BCA2.E3463255@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 22:50:26 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Fumerola Cc: aaron , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/include/netinet/in.h References: <200205071814.46995.aaron@lo-res.org> <3CD802AF.45825A2C@mindspring.com> <20020507200148.GD11262@elvis.mu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:37:03AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Such an arrangement is called "promiscuous includes". > > by whom? > > Your search - "promiscuous includes" - did not match any documents.[1] Old farts. Programmers who learned on systems with precompiled header (".i") files, and on machines where number of included files was a real factor in total compilation time? Before "#ifndef _STDIO_H_" became a common way of protecting programmers from including header files twice, instead of simply making it a compiler error, so that they actually had to think to write code. 8-) 8-). It's what my college professor called it, back in 1982 or so... so it's what I call it. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message