Post top don't please.
In <[email protected]>, on 05/03/2011
at 09:03 AM, John McKown <[email protected]> said:
>Then explain them to this poor fool. I find them to be a useless
>anachronism. And your answers tend to be so short as to be
>unhelpful.
My answers tend to be based on the messages and posters they are
responding to. I've been known to include code examples and excerpts
from manuals, when appropriate.
Sequence numbers provide convenient tags for referring to blocks of
code. Withing a single edit session that isn't too important, but when
you add in compilers, human readers, etc. it acquires more importance.
The goo gets blinding when there are multiple occurrences[1] of the
same block and you want to direct someone's attention to one of them.
[1] That sort of thing can cause problems reconciling independent
changes when using something like cvs[2].
[2] Not a pharmacy.
--
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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