Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 16:23:20 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Brian Cully <shmit@kublai.com> Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, phk@critter.freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for review: changes to if_vlan.c Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903031620290.26336-100000@feral-gw> In-Reply-To: <19990303185832.A193@kublai.com>
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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
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