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Subject: Re: No explosions

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 12:03:59 01/13/02

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On January 13, 2002 at 14:10:06, Tony Werten wrote:

>On January 13, 2002 at 10:27:46, David Rasmussen wrote:
>
>>On January 12, 2002 at 12:31:04, Tony Werten wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>You do realise that your total extensions can be close to 2 ? (Depending on the
>>>value of ONE_REPLY_EXTENSION.)
>>>
>>
>>Yes, as we talked about elsewhere in the thread. I don't know how else to use
>>one_reply extension. I limit extensions to one ply at each ply, so when
>>one_reply is applied, so will check_extension and so this will give (for my
>>current values) 1.0+0.75=1.75 limited to one = 1.0, so the one reply extension
>>wont have any effect at all.
>
>Not really. Your code suggests that you first limit it to 1 ply and then you add
>one_reply_extension. That would mean 1.75 extension wich could explode.
>
>Tony
>

Sorry, I was being unclear. I meant _if_ I did the limiting after the one reply
extension is applied, the extension wouldn't have any effect. As it is now, yes,
the extensions can be 1.75 given the right conditions.

/David



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