RE: [boost] Coding Guidelines for integral constant expressions

From: Reid Sweatman (reid_of_diamonds_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-03-21 06:54:57

Actually, I always associated it with system security, as in the William
Gibson cyberpunk novels.  The commercial sort-of firewall BlackICE Defender
seems to be an allusion to that meaning.

Reid Sweatman

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Maddock [mailto:John_Maddock_at_[hidden]]
> Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2001 5:02 AM
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> Subject: Re: [boost] Coding Guidelines for integral constant expressions
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> >Great job!Typo:Where some_symbol is the symbolic name of a an ICE whole
> >value is (ICE1 == ICE2).                                          ^^^^
> >^^^^^
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> Oops, thanks.
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> >Concern: isn't "ICE" sometimes used to denote a hard crash?
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> In view of the way some compilers behave in this area, isn't that
> a kind of
> ironic coincidence? :->
>
> Seriously though, I'll change the name if required, It's just that
> "integral constant expression" gets a bit long after a while...
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> - John Maddock
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