Walt Mankowski on Thu, 30 Dec 1999 15:46:04 -0500 (EST) |
Our infamous unnamed programmer wrote: > &KeelOver ("$ErrorCode : Bad Medium or other error. (copy)") if ($returned != 0); Robert wrote: > Here's the answer. He had too much to drink and was going to &KeelOver().... > No.. wait.. he just got back from a bad psychic (sometimes called a Medium) > and was trying to contact some long lost relative, but it didn't work.. or > maybe it did. .Is that why he's Keeling over? And Mark-Jason wrote > I think your theory about how he had too much to drink is right on. > Perhaps `medium' refers to whatever he was drinking. If the medium is > `bad' then that could explain the keeling over as well as explaining > the program itself I just felt I should point out that Robert and Mark-Jason have done an amazing job of describing the guy who wrote this. This, sadly, is typical of the kind of code this guy writes. There's just so much wrong I don't know where to begin -- the random mix of local and global variables ... his strange variable names ... the inconsistent formatting ... the lack of error checking ... his construction of a non-unique, variable length datetime stamp ... the references to the mysterious $returned (another global, and all other references to it in other parts of the program were commented out). Sigh. **Majordomo list services provided by PANIX <URL:http://www.panix.com>** **To Unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe phl" to majordomo@lists.pm.org**
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