[m-dev.] Re: fixed limits are *evil*

Peter Schachte schachte at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Tue Jun 29 17:01:52 AEST 1999


On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 06:44:37AM +0000, Lee Naish wrote:
> Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> writes:
> >Has anyone encountered this problem before?
> >If so, do you know of a solution?
> Force the responsible programmer to write out 100 times
> "fixed limits are *evil*" ... and then shoot them.

This is especially true of memory and disk space.  Particularly on
/home/pgrad :-).

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