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- From: milam@fohnix.metronet.com (Stan Milam)
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- Subject: Re: Tradition or what?
- Date: 27 Feb 1996 19:32:40 -0600
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- Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems (softbase@mercury.interpath.net) wrote:
- : Erik van Renselaar writes:
-
- : : Can anyone tell me what the use is of returning
- : : the same value for the function and one of the
- : : output parameters, like it is done in strcpy?
-
- : Steve Maguire discusses this issue in Writing Solid Code. The
- : randomness with which the C library's parameters and return code
- : (0=success AND failure depending on the function!) conventions happened
- : are bad because they influence people who look upon them as models.
- : Reading Writing Solid Code is almost mandatory.
-
- : Scott
-
- Oh please! After reading this book I no longer wonder why Microsoft Word
- for Windows GPFs when opening a document that was saved only and hour before.
- McGuire would have us all rewriting standard library functions putting inane
- assertions in them. Never mind that he frequently violates Standard C
- in his holy quest to find bugs. I would fire him after 5 minutes!
-