Re: [OT] of the different methods to get a user-id

2009-02-18 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter, On 2/17/2009 5:08 AM, Peter Crowther wrote: >> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] >> IMHO, you either have control of your production environment >> yourself (and can do whatever you want) or you have an ops team >

RE: [OT] of the different methods to get a user-id

2009-02-17 Thread Peter Crowther
> From: Ken Bowen [mailto:kbo...@als.com] > The only thing more fiery than "language X is better than language Y" > is "editor Z is better than editor W" :-) To skip a few levels in the inevitable impending debate... "Well I edited the inodes by hand. With magnets." (http://www.userfriendly.o

Re: [OT] of the different methods to get a user-id

2009-02-17 Thread Ken Bowen
The only thing more fiery than "language X is better than language Y" is "editor Z is better than editor W" :-) On Feb 17, 2009, at 9:45 AM, André Warnier wrote: "language X is better than language Y" - To unsubscribe, e-

Re: [OT] of the different methods to get a user-id

2009-02-17 Thread André Warnier
Just in case it was missed in the subsequent conflagration (and I always marvel at how easy it is to start a conflagration by saying something like "language X is better than language Y"), I would just like to state that my blurb was meant to be taken lightly, with ;-) and so on. Comparing pro

RE: [OT] of the different methods to get a user-id

2009-02-17 Thread Peter Crowther
> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] > IMHO, you either > have control of your production environment yourself (and can do > whatever you want) or you have an ops team with complete > control of your > production environment (and they ought to be able to handle > scary

RE: [OT] of the different methods to get a user-id

2009-02-16 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] > Subject: Re: [OT] of the different methods to get a user-id > Do you mean gcc on win32 worked as you expected? Yes, it produced the same results as Java. - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR

Re: [OT] of the different methods to get a user-id

2009-02-16 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck, On 2/16/2009 5:19 PM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] >> Subject: Re: [OT] of the different methods to get a user-id >> >> For instance. >> i = i++

RE: [OT] of the different methods to get a user-id

2009-02-16 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] > Subject: Re: [OT] of the different methods to get a user-id > > For instance. > i = i++ > > yields different results depending on what language > you are using. C and Java produce different outputs >

Re: [OT] of the different methods to get a user-id

2009-02-16 Thread Alan Chaney
Chris, I offer my opinions here as a real "grey beard" (literally). I certainly agree with you that people should have a breath of skills allowing them to use the right tool at the right time. However, notwithstanding the fact that the other day I worked out that I have actually used about 15

Re: [OT] of the different methods to get a user-id

2009-02-16 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, What the hell.. let's start a holy war?! On 2/13/2009 10:25 AM, André Warnier wrote: > Their merit is all the greater since > they work in the obscure non-graphical background, they never get any of > the attention, and they have to share mach

Re: [OT] of the different methods to get a user-id

2009-02-16 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck, On 2/12/2009 10:27 PM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] >> Subject: Re: [OT] of the different methods to get a user-id >> >> I don't understand that,

Re: [OT] of the different methods to get a user-id

2009-02-13 Thread André Warnier
Peter Crowther wrote: From: Caldarale, Charles R [mailto:chuck.caldar...@unisys.com] Hear, hear! In a past life, a guy I know actually wrote a suite of production programs in APL - which was even more cryptic (but also more logical) than Perl. Dedication indeed! Did he need the custom golfbal

RE: [OT] of the different methods to get a user-id

2009-02-13 Thread Peter Crowther
> From: Caldarale, Charles R [mailto:chuck.caldar...@unisys.com] > Hear, hear! In a past life, a guy I know actually wrote a > suite of production programs in APL - which was even more > cryptic (but also more logical) than Perl. Dedication indeed! Did he need the custom golfball for the teletyp

RE: [OT] of the different methods to get a user-id

2009-02-13 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Peter Crowther [mailto:peter.crowt...@melandra.com] > Subject: RE: [OT] of the different methods to get a user-id > > Thank you. Although I don't need any further reasons to > avoid that camel of a language whenever I can, it's always > nice to find another re

RE: [OT] of the different methods to get a user-id

2009-02-13 Thread Peter Crowther
> From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] > I was going to let that one pass, but now I'm provoked. > The expressions above do work differently in Perl. [...] > However, the calle sub can be cleverer and anticipate this, by doing : > return wantarray ? (i++) : i++; > thus checking in which con

Re: [OT] of the different methods to get a user-id

2009-02-13 Thread André Warnier
Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] Subject: Re: [OT] of the different methods to get a user-id I don't understand that, either. I suppose this works differently in different languages, though: return i++; return (i++); Not any

RE: [OT] of the different methods to get a user-id

2009-02-12 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] > Subject: Re: [OT] of the different methods to get a user-id > > I don't understand that, either. I suppose this works differently in > different languages, though: > > return i++; > > return (i++);

Re: [OT] of the different methods to get a user-id

2009-02-12 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck, On 2/12/2009 1:22 PM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: > > As Pid surmised, it's not Tomcat that is giving you different > answers. > Here's Tomcat's implementation of HttpServletRequest.getRemoteUser(): > > public String getRemoteUser() { >