From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 8 12:52:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5C7D37B412 for ; Wed, 8 May 2002 12:52:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g48JqanG125288; Wed, 8 May 2002 15:52:36 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3CD8BCA2.E3463255@mindspring.com> References: <200205071814.46995.aaron@lo-res.org> <3CD802AF.45825A2C@mindspring.com> <20020507200148.GD11262@elvis.mu.org> <3CD8BCA2.E3463255@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 15:52:35 -0400 To: Terry Lambert , Bill Fumerola From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: /usr/include/netinet/in.h Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) 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 At 10:50 PM -0700 5/7/02, Terry Lambert wrote: >Bill Fumerola wrote: > > On Tue, May 07, 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Such an arrangement is called "promiscuous includes". >> >> by whom? >> > > Your search - "promiscuous includes" - did not match any > > documents.[1] > >Old farts. I refuse to comment on the grounds it may incriminate me. >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. I know I've heard the term. It's very likely that my memory of it is from before 1990... Certainly it's a phrase which is apt, and it's pretty easy to guess what it means. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message