From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 3 16:24:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E5DC150CB for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 16:24:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from localhost (mjacob@localhost) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA26609; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 16:23:20 -0800 Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 16:23:20 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@feral-gw Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Brian Cully Cc: John Polstra , phk@critter.freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for review: changes to if_vlan.c In-Reply-To: <19990303185832.A193@kublai.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was not responding to this for a while because Poul quite correctly thwapped me for not being on point, but I couldn't let this go. > The point should be clear, using proper string identifiers would > make your program easier to understand and modify, as well as > allow for greater extensibility. By this measure, nearly all of the code available to the WindowsNT DDK is "easier to understand and modify" as well as allow[ing] for greater flexibility". My only point here is that both numbers and strings are identifiers, and it is not always obvious but it *is* context (observer context) sensitive as which is, in fact, easier to use or manipulate or remember. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message