why are magic numbers preferred?

Paul Smith paul at mad-scientist.us
Wed Apr 16 16:56:56 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 18:49 +0200, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
> Don't pick up on that name (FIVETWELVE).  It's meant as an example
> _only_.

Ah OK.  I think generally when a patch is sent, it's assumed that the
sender intends it to be applied as-is.

Cheers!




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