In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on
07/18/2005
   at 08:26 AM, "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>Well, why is FIVE a "magic number"? If you're going to go to the
>"trouble" of using a variable, name the variable so that somebody
>else knows what it is, conceptually.

AOL. Programmers should worry more about making their code
maintainable.
 
-- 
     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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