From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 30 8: 1:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E351B156F2 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 08:01:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA17704; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 11:01:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 11:01:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199907301501.LAA17704@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_fw.c In-Reply-To: References: <199907291156.NAA06494@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <19990730093259.A93194@freebie.lemis.com> <199907300302.XAA15392@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: >> [I quoted Stephen Spackman:] >> There is no _inherent_ virtue in symbolic names. Pi over two is >> GROSSLY unlikely to change in circumstances where Pi remains constant. > So imagine you write a large program which uses Pi a lot. Imagine > further that this program is being developed by several different > people. They use literal constants instead of symoblic constants. So > the program has different literal constants for Pi scattered all over: > 3.14, 3.1415, 3.14159265, 3.14159265358 (truncated) and 3.14159265359 > (rounded) - and that's assuming none of them ever makes a typo. You totally missed the point. Go read what I quoted again. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message