Re: What's so special about objects/17/ ?

From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Oct 7, 2018, 22:39 UTC
Message-ID: <c904d10e-d6a1-b1d4-73eb-fb93f5caecdb@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <87in2da862.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

Am 07.10.18 um 21:06 schrieb Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason:

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> Picking any one number is explained in the comment. I'm asking why 17 in
> particular not for correctness reasons but as a bit of historical lore,
> and because my ulterior is to improve the GC docs.
> 
> The number in that comic is 4 (and no datestamp on when it was
> published). Are you saying Junio's patch is somehow a reference to that
> xkcd in particular, or that it's just a funny reference in this context?

No lore, AFAIR. It's just a random number, determined by a fair dice roll or something ;)

-- Hannes

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