Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 15:52:35 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Bill Fumerola <billf@elvis.mu.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/include/netinet/in.h Message-ID: <p0511174db8ff315c88b3@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <3CD8BCA2.E3463255@mindspring.com> References: <200205071814.46995.aaron@lo-res.org> <3CD802AF.45825A2C@mindspring.com> <20020507200148.GD11262@elvis.mu.org> <3CD8BCA2.E3463255@mindspring.com>
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At 10:50 PM -0700 5/7/02, Terry Lambert wrote: >Bill Fumerola wrote: > > On Tue, May 07, 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Such an arrangement is called "promiscuous includes". >> >> by whom? >> > > Your search - "promiscuous includes" - did not match any > > documents.[1] > >Old farts. I refuse to comment on the grounds it may incriminate me. >Before "#ifndef _STDIO_H_" became a common way of protecting >programmers from including header files twice, instead of simply >making it a compiler error, so that they actually had to think >to write code. > >8-) 8-). > >It's what my college professor called it, back in 1982 or so... >so it's what I call it. I know I've heard the term. It's very likely that my memory of it is from before 1990... Certainly it's a phrase which is apt, and it's pretty easy to guess what it means. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.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-hackers" in the body of the message
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