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- From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.std.c
- Subject: Re: Coding Standards are ignorant
- Date: 4 Mar 1996 10:17:22 -0600
- Organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover)
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- References: <4gum82$14v4@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <1996Mar403.23.06.8316@koobera.math.uic.edu> <4he37i$a0u@solutions.solon.com> <1996Mar408.48.01.11162@koobera.math.uic.edu>
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- In article <1996Mar408.48.01.11162@koobera.math.uic.edu>,
- D. J. Bernstein <djb@koobera.math.uic.edu> wrote:
- >Peter Seebach <seebs@solutions.solon.com> wrote:
- >> D. J. Bernstein <djb@koobera.math.uic.edu> wrote:
- >> > Seebach has been making a bunch of false statements on gnu.misc.discuss
- >> > about portability, speed, and various other things.
- >> Example false statements:
-
- >``There are no interesting programs you can't write entirely within
- >POSIX and ANSI.''
-
- (I didn't realize POSIX sockets don't exist yet. :) )
-
- >``[ispunct()] has no excuse to assume that char is 8 bits.'' (Of course
- >it has an excuse. Whether it's a _good_ excuse is a side issue.)
-
- (Mostly, my point is that ispunct is a library function, and may assume
- whatever it pleases. A user-land equivalent, I believe, has no call to
- assume char is 8 bits.)
-
- >``It will hurt because it's incorrect by the only standard applicable.''
- >(False hypothesis, false logic, false conclusion.)
-
- I don't see any of these; code which is not strictly conforming, or even
- just code which invokes undefined behavior, is worse off than code that
- doesn't.
-
- >``void main [has] NO BENEFIT WHATSOEVER.''
-
- >``If declaring main as void really shuts gcc up, there is a bug in
- >either gcc or your code.''
-
- Both of these I stand by, and I consider them to be error-free.
-
- >Referring to isalnum || strchr: ``... this version is likely to be
- >within 5% of your version, because isalnum is normally blindingly fast,
- >and most characters in addresses will be isalnum.''
-
- Blatantly false, except that it might be very close on a machine with
- a different implementation. Becomes true if you include the rest of the
- code.
-
- >Referring to RFC 822: ``... '.' must also be quoted.'' (No, not always.)
-
- So I just skimmed the grammar, and saw a list of characters marked "must
- be quoted". Followups on this one to comp.mail.headers.
-
- -s
- --
- Peter Seebach - seebs@solon.com - Copyright 1996 Peter Seebach.
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