From: pogo@ayup.res.wpi.edu (Chris Gual)
Newsgroups: wpi.test
Subject: Re: Why CS's don't cook

<marsh@ayup.res.wpi.edu> wrote:

Marsh: Duane D Morin <ddm@wpi.WPI.EDU> wrote:

   Duane: Makes perfect sense to me that I should be able
          to reverse engineer that.  Namely, that a recipe
          can be thought of  like a computer program.

Marsh: Certainly, sounds logical to me

   Duane: So I've got some rice that I want to cook.  And,
          I've got the recipe thingie on the back of the
          container.  Let's see....1.5 cups rice, 1 cup
          water.   Ok, I can do that.  Bring to a boil.

          BOIL?!  What's this "boil"?  Does this mean when
          I first see bubbles?  Or when it's bubbling over?
          I need to know these things.

Marsh: gas boil(liquid water)
       // boils the specified liquid
       {
              gas steam_bubble;
              if (water < *some_small_volume_of_liquid*)
                      return steam_bubble;
              else return boil (water/2) + boil (water/2);
       }
       There. Clearer now?

marsh, you're returning an uninitialized variable.  bad bad
bad.  you could also add some debugging asserts.

i'll file a bug report, but i want it fixed up in the next
build, ok?