At Mon, 03 Feb 2003 09:49:59 -0500,
Paul Davis wrote:
> 
> >> To be explicit:  whenever you see a bug, don't just
> >> ask how to fix this instance of the bug;  ask what
> >> it would take to make sure no bug of this ilk ever
> >> occurs again.
> >> 
> >> In this case:
> >>   a) It would help to have some comments in the code
> >> saying where the constants are coming from, so that
> >> misconceptions can be more easily spotted.
> >>   b) It would help to use correctly computed constants
> >> such as
> 
> actually, neither would have really helped very much here. i don't
> know who set the values to those that were here before. the values
> were clearly wrong on any reading of the code, and i've thought about
> them on previous readings. the values that were there before were not
> "buggy" - they were completely wrong.
 
i also don't know how they got in, but at least the values were
already there more than one year ago...


Takashi


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