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Theo Van Dinter writes:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:53:52AM -0700, Dan Quinlan wrote:
> > This code is really getting unreadable and is hard to follow and this
> > patch makes it worse, the use of magic numbers like -1 is also bad.
> 
> I think it's like the rest of our code, if you're used to it, it makes sense.
> If it doesn't, it takes a little bit.
> 
> I could have used undef instead of -1, but -1 is an invalid received date
> which if used before the time is actually determined will at least make it
> known what the state is -- undef would throw a warning/etc.

I agree with Daniel that "magic numbers" make for hard-to-read code.
How's about defining a constant TIME_UNKNOWN_YET or similar, which
maps to -1, and using that instead?

- --j.
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