Not very "XP" of you - "Always do the least you need to do".

Or, if you want to be REALLY evil, declare them as "assignable typed constants" -- Borland's ~~old~~ancient concept of "constants" that weren't really constant at all, apparently as a hack(*) at introducing initialized variables to Pascal. (Yes, it's deprecated like all Hell, of course; but the option IS still there, even in Delphi 7.)

But, really, all this [link|http://martinfowler.com/articles/newMethodology.html|"agile methods"] blither is looking more and more convincing to me... Certainly you are agile enough to CHANGE the constants into variables, should the need ever arise? Especially since the change wouldn't be all that big in the first place; the mechanics of file opening and reading and so on would positively dwarf it anyway.

(*): Misguided and best forgotten -- nay, best chopped into microscopic slivers, then burned to cinders and the ashes incinerated AGAIN, then buried under a mile-thick shield of depleted uranium at the bottom of the Marianas trench, and THEN forgotten! -- but, alas, undead like some fucking mummy in a cheesy horror flick.

Post #141,252 by CRConrad 2/11/04 7:27:02 PM Reply	Not very "XP" of you - "Always do the least you need to do". Or, if you want to be REALLY evil, declare them as "assignable typed constants" -- Borland's ~~old~~ancient concept of "constants" that weren't really constant at all, apparently as a hack() at introducing initialized variables to Pascal. (Yes, it's deprecated like all Hell, of course; but the option IS still there, even in Delphi 7.) But, really, all this [link\|http://martinfowler.com/articles/newMethodology.html\|"agile methods"] blither is looking more and more convincing to me... Certainly you are agile enough to CHANGE the constants into variables, should the need ever arise? Especially since the change wouldn't be all that big in the first place; the mechanics of file opening and reading and so on would positively dwarf it anyway. (): Misguided and best forgotten -- nay, best chopped into microscopic slivers, then burned to cinders and the ashes incinerated AGAIN, then buried under a mile-thick shield of depleted uranium at the bottom of the Marianas trench, and THEN forgotten! -- but, alas, undead like some fucking mummy in a cheesy horror flick. [link\|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode\|Christian R. Conrad] (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.) You know you're doing good work when you get flamed by an idiot. -- [link\|http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/34218.html\|Andrew Wittbrodt]
Post #141,333 by pwhysall 2/12/04 3:05:25 AM Reply	I'm not very XP, no. And I compiled that code with fpc, which is available at: [link\|http://www.freepascal.org/\|http://www.freepascal.org/] I dunno what your strange Windows-things do; because they're not free or Free, so I can't obtain them. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home Page - Now with added Zing!]
Post #141,337 by CRConrad 2/12/04 3:13:13 AM Reply	Bullshit, and you (ought to) know it. PeeWee obstines: I dunno what your strange Windows-things do; because they're not free or Free, so I can't obtain them. Thought I'd mentioned [link\|http://bdn.borland.com/museum/\|this] often enough. [link\|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode\|Christian R. Conrad] (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.) You know you're doing good work when you get flamed by an idiot. -- [link\|http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/34218.html\|Andrew Wittbrodt]
Post #141,338 by pwhysall 2/12/04 3:14:28 AM Reply	That's nifty. Ta, I'll have a rummage. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Home Page - Now with added Zing!]
Post #141,340 by deSitter 2/12/04 3:18:39 AM Reply	That is great! A museum that insists on touching! Danke! -drl
Post #141,341 by deSitter 2/12/04 3:23:47 AM Reply	Sigh 10,000 lines per minute! Look at the compile times vs. MSC 5.0 - how the hell did we let them win?? [image\|http://bdn.borland.com/article/images/20297/turboc.jpg\|\|\|\|] -drl
Post #141,345 by CRConrad 2/12/04 3:41:36 AM Reply	Heh, look at the magazine quote... ...by Peter Feldman, PC Week; in later days, Peter Coffee at PC Week -- now renamed e-Week -- has been very much gushing about Delphi. Unless it's the same guy who changed his name, Borland has been very lucky with the Peters at that rag. [link\|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode\|Christian R. Conrad] (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.) You know you're doing good work when you get flamed by an idiot. -- [link\|http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/35/34218.html\|Andrew Wittbrodt]
Post #141,378 by Arkadiy 2/12/04 9:41:18 AM Reply	It was all about Windows Borland completely bungled that move. -- "...and pronounce all four E's in the word 'shit'"
Post #141,494 by jb4 2/12/04 5:23:42 PM Reply	Not bungled... they were fucked by the Vole. Go back into your history and read up on Shulman's Undocumented Windows. That will completely explain why Borland faltered. jb4 shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub* + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating that facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf.* BULLSHIT
Post #141,495 by a6l6e6x 2/12/04 5:27:50 PM Reply	Including the use of Buck Forland in the credits. Alex The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. -- Plutarch
Post #141,352 by Ashton 2/12/04 4:48:08 AM Reply	Obstines..HeeHee____Guess you obstreps, eh?

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