Temporary Numbers



BuiltForLifeNumber 10 through 99 are temporary numbers used while programming when it is inconvenient to assign permentent numbers. Normally one doesn't check-in code with temporary numbers. Instead, when convenient, one can AllocateTenNumbers and use a number ?SubstitutionUtility like bfl.pl to replace the temporary numbers with the new permenent numbers.

For example, say a team writes five answers while programming. Since they were very busy they don't bother to get perment numbers and choose to use the numbers 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 instead. Then, when finished, they use bfl.pl, to change these to perment numbers, 23170, 23171, 23172, 23173 and 23174 which they allocate with AllocateTenNumbers.

    bfl.pl -s  10 23170 .
      17 substitutions

The bfl.pl script can communicate with this site to allocate numbers for you. Use the -a option to allocate numbers.

    bfl.pl -as 10 .
      password: 437axr432pzq
      first of 10 numbers: 23170
      17 substitutions

 

Last edited November 27, 2002
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