Re: Friday Morning Fun

[Andrew Wilson]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 03:14:38PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> * Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > 
> > >Oh well, how well would I have done in the interview? :-)
> > 
> > Fine... right up to that last bit :)
> > 
> 
> The correct answer in an interview to the question,
> 
>       "What does $i=1,2; do?"
> 
> is of course,
> 
>       It increases my estimation of the mean time to failure
>       of the system which the line resides in.

Surely it decreases your estimate i.e. code like this is likely to
fail sooner?

cheers

Andrew