In article <eq4l57-okf2....@ozzie.tundraware.com>, Tim Daneliuk <tun...@tundraware.com> wrote:
> On 2/24/2010 2:23 PM, Andreas Waldenburger wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > a company that works with my company writes a lot of of their code in > > Python (lucky jerks). I've seen their code and it basically looks like > > this: > > > > """Function that does stuff""" > > def doStuff(): > > while not wise(up): > > yield scorn > > > > Now my question is this: How do I kill these people without the > > authorities thinking they didn't deserve it? > > > > /W > > > > Reminiscent of: > > mov AX,BX ; Move the contents of BX into AX > > And, yes, I've actually seen that as well as: > > ; This is a comment OK, if we're going to do this, how about this one, that I just found yesterday in some production C++ code. I'm so glad somebody took the time to explain to me what p7 through p9 are. I never would have figured it out otherwise. /** * Tracing facility. Writes the message to the specified output stream. * If output stream is NULL, writes the message to the process log. * * @param msg_id The message id to use for lookup. * @param ostr The output stream. * @param p1 The first substition parameter. * @param p2 The second substition parameter. * @param p3 The third substition parameter. * @param p4 The fourth substition parameter. * @param p5 The fifth substition parameter. * @param p6 The sixth substition parameter. * @param p7 The seventh substition parameter. * @param p8 The eigth substition parameter. * @param p9 The ninth substition parameter. */ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list