Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:44:55 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysctl oids (was: Re: kvm question) Message-ID: <199901242244.RAA04500@kot.ne.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990124140935.6880C-100000@current1.whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Jan 24, 1999 02:15:08 pm"
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Julian Elischer once stated: => Nonsense. There are plenty of contexts in which a number makes far => more sense than a name -- pretty much anything in any network stack => other than Chaosnet, for example. If any of us ever make good on the => threat of SNMP integration, having fixed numerical identifiers will => be a requirement. =SNMP will require a translation layer anyhow.. numbers cannot and =should not be used. They are not easily maintained in the face of =multiple external modules being dynamically loadable. =That is at least my opinion.. you may and do disagree. I guess you will =say that numbers are just as dynamic, etc.etc. well I just think that =in the REAL WORLD, as opposed to the theoretical world, names (which =require no co-ordination between authors), are a better choice than =numbers, which require some central naming authority. Pardon my intrusion, but I strongly dislike the very thought about my computer looking-up the same string more then once or twice. If it counts -- I'd take a number over a string anytime anywhere other then in a documentation. -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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