From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 22 7:10:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 161F737B713 for ; Mon, 22 May 2000 07:10:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12tsu4-000B4T-00; Mon, 22 May 2000 16:09:56 +0200 Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 16:09:56 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Ethics of Free Software Message-ID: <20000522160955.A42498@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000521131809.A6546@sharmas.dhs.org> <20000522145256.A5983@happy.checkpoint.com> <20000522192852.A21093@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000522192852.A21093@physics.iisc.ernet.in>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Mon, May 22, 2000 at 07:28:52PM +0530 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon 2000-05-22 (19:28), Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > And the gloating GNU-bashers out there can note that his reference > to FreeBSD wasn't so flattering either. (But I'm curious, is it > really true that there were three instances of "if (x=y)" in the > source?) Since when is "if (x=y)" always wrong? Actually, talking to people, it appears that at least two of these instances were not incorrect. The first was in a defined out section of code that would never be reached, and the second was correct. (Yes, I do know about "if ((x = y))") Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message