From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13362 invoked by alias); 12 Aug 2004 16:55:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 13348 invoked from network); 12 Aug 2004 16:55:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ob2.cmich.edu) (141.209.20.21) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 12 Aug 2004 16:55:13 -0000 Received: from egate1.central.cmich.local ([141.209.15.85]) by ob2.cmich.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i7CGoGP6022493; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 12:50:17 -0400 Received: from leon.phy.cmich.edu ([141.209.165.20]) by egate1.central.cmich.local with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 12:52:37 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by leon.phy.cmich.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93A7970021; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 12:55:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:58:00 -0000 From: Eric McDonald To: Jim Kingdon Cc: hronne@comhem.se, Subject: Re: time.g weirdness In-Reply-To: <200408121539.i7CFdMW10498@panix5.panix.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-OriginalArrivalTime: 12 Aug 2004 16:52:37.0179 (UTC) FILETIME=[C593C8B0:01C4808C] X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-Spam-Score: -0.9 () X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg00884.txt.bz2 On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Jim Kingdon wrote: > > /* Don't print out storage space if it is set to arbitrarily large > > (9999, 999 or 99) as in many games. */ > > Well, that's more problematic, in that it doesn't check storage > against consumption, production, etc. I agree. This is one of the pieces of code I had in mind when I suggested that relative infinity would be useful beyond just the help system. > It does seem like an argument for some more real form of infinity > (maybe just TABHI). I agree. Eric