Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 23:02:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_fw.c Message-ID: <199907300302.XAA15392@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990730093259.A93194@freebie.lemis.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907291008390.13541-100000@janus.syracuse.net> <199907291156.NAA06494@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <19990730093259.A93194@freebie.lemis.com>
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At the risk of continuing this already pointless thread... <<On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:32:59 +0930, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> said: > The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to > constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every > appearance, the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA > statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This > also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change. > -- FORTRAN manual for Xerox Computers From my ever-excrescent .plan file: There is no _inherent_ virtue in symbolic names. Pi over two is GROSSLY unlikely to change in circumstances where Pi remains constant. The *only* reason such idiotic symbols became popular is (I believe) that [a] bug in the original Pascal type definition mechanism forbids expressions in some random selection of contexts. Do not bow down to Wirth nor worship him. - Stephen P. Spackman -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
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