[snip] It's interesting to dangle bait above a pool of programmers and see what rises. :-) There used to be a contest to create the most complicated solution to accomplish a very trivial task, like turning on a light switch. However, I can't remember what the contest was called -- it was something like the FUBAR awards. [/snip] Obfuscation contests! The Rube-Goldberg machines of software design. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php