M . J . T . Guy <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk> writes: > >An interesting exercise would be to identify those modules which suffered >from pollution and caused this whole exercise to be initiated. Then >make sure the algorithm does the right thing for them. Does anyone >remember which they were? Tk was one. The pollution damage (like the real thing) went unnoticed for a long time - it would build on old poluting perls but polution meant that what the code thought it was doing was not what it was doing. The real killers were: #ifdef dirty #undef dirty #endif #ifdef bufptr #undef bufptr #endif #ifdef colors #undef colors #endif > > >Mike Guy -- Nick Ing-SimmonsThread Previous | Thread Next