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- From: softbase@mercury.interpath.net (Scott McMahan - Softbase Systems)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Tradition or what?
- Date: 8 Mar 1996 23:30:24 GMT
- Organization: Interpath -- Providing Internet access to North Carolina
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- anh@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu wrote:
- : Well, I found one good use of magic numbers such as when one needs a
- : localized temporary buffer of data.
- : Well, if I know the data is always going to be less than 15 or whatever,
- : there is really no need to use a #define here.
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- You defeated your own argument!
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- Suppose you "know" that your buffer is "always" going to be 80
- bytes. Then it changes to 132!
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- Scott
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