From: daz Date: 2004-05-14T09:48:50+09:00 Subject: Re: safe eval? [GALLIC HUMOUR FLIES THROUGH THE ROCKIES IN A BLACK HELICOPTER] Ara.T.Howard wrote: > On Thu, 13 May 2004, ts wrote: > > > Look at proc_save_safe_level() and proc_get_safe_level() in eval.c (1.9) > > :-) > > 000c => 4000 ... what's the point? > > why to i feel like this is some sort of koan? is everyone laughing at me? > ;-) > Not until they see the connection between NOAA (under "Research is big here") and "Mork & Mindy" in this short page. http://users.frii.com/geomanda/boulder/ $SAFE = 12 reminds me of the brilliant spoof documentary "This is Spinal Tap" about a touring Rock band. One of the band members goes into too much detail about how he has his amplifiers modified from Range 0..10 to 0..11 because 10 isn't high enough for him. ============================================================================= And to let others in on the joke, Guy sees that $SAFE is a 3-bit value, 12 is 1100 in binary (4-bits), the top bit is masked off (i.e. dropped) and 0100 is the result. $SAFE = 12 becomes $SAFE = 4. ( $SAFE = 7 would be the maximum allowable ) Trust me; in binary world, this is funny :D daz