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Re: gawk: redundant byte for each string [was: Question about gawk unoff
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Aharon Robbins |
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Re: gawk: redundant byte for each string [was: Question about gawk unofficial patch] |
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Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:03:55 +0200 |
Julian,
I understood what you were saying and did not take it to mean that
you implying that I didn't know what I was doing. So no worries
there.
One Of These Days I'll fix it. I don't know when though.
Arnold
> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 15:09:28 +0000
> From: Julian Foad <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: gawk: redundant byte for each string [was: Question about gawk
> unofficial patch]
> To: Aharon Robbins <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> Julian Foad wrote:
> > Aharon Robbins wrote:
> >> [...] The + 2 provides a little extra breathing room;
> >> it's been a convention in gawk for ages, before I took over full
> >> time maintanance even. [...]
> >
> > [...] That sort
> > of thing indicates that the programmer didn't understand the code that
> > they wrote, [...]
>
> Stepan thought I was implying that you don't understand what you write. Not
> at
> all; I only meant that it gives the impression to readers unfamiliar with the
> background that the author (whoever that may be) was unsure.
>
> Sorry if my denouncement came across too harshly. Of course there are more
> important things to think about.
>
> - Julian
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