Thank you all for the constructive criticism and food for thought. I have never enjoyed having a mentor. It has largely been on my own (I guess that shows). I have had the misfortune of dealing with other people's code where nothing was commented and the code was, at least for me, not intuitive in any way. As a matter of fact, I can't think of a single program that I have had to tweak that had comments. As a result, I have been over-compensating, I will take a page from your book and Strunk and White's, and keep it brief. I will rework this week and repost it to you, if you don't mind, to see if it is up to scratch.

Again, thanks. I am happy to have this place, and people like you that will help folks along the way. Cheers!

In reply to Re^2: How do I prototype a function with a varying number of arguments? by lyapunov
in thread How do I prototype a function with a varying number of arguments? by lyapunov

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