From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Aug 17 8:35: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD73F37B401 for ; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:34:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7HFYtk112060; Fri, 17 Aug 2001 11:34:55 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20010817015906.Q38066@elvis.mu.org> References: <200108161551.f7GFpLK72129@grimreaper.grondar.za> <20010817162340.O34503-100000@besplex.bde.org> <20010817015906.Q38066@elvis.mu.org> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 11:34:53 -0400 To: Alfred Perlstein From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Style 9 nitpicking question Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 1:59 AM -0500 8/17/01, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >Actually it's quite useful, it means: > >"I the author of this code am fully aware that this function returns >a value, however I know that it either will always have a certain >outcome, or that the outcome doesn't matter because I'm attempting >to salvage something, or that at this point a failure is of no >concern." Or it means: "I copied this code from some other section, and whoever wrote that section put these stupid voids there." :-) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.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-arch" in the body of the message