Jeff Woods wrote:
>
> At  04:46 PM 8/29/00, Donna Garverick wrote:
> >Gavin Scott wrote:
> >
> > > They will even survive INSTALLs :-)
>
> > > The idea is that after doing the :GETRIN, you would go hardcode the RIN
> > > number in your application somewhere, so you really don't want the numbers
> > > to change or go away.
>
> Even though the intent of GRINs is to be permanent until freed, I suggest
> you don't literally hardcode them into your applications.  Instead, look
> them up from some table of "constants" at runtime.  That way if something
> forces you to get another RIN number for some reason (BTDT) you can easily
> change the reference to it everywhere.
>

You mean, I don't believe it, everyone doesn't do that all the time
for all constants!?:-)

Richard


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