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- From: arno@yaps.rhein.de (Arno Eigenwillig)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: FindTask() VERY IMPORTANT
- Message-ID: <dBYfy*Rdg@yaps.rhein.de>
- Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 12:40:45 +0100
- References: <4hp3cv$cqe@serpens.rhein.de> <4i64pk$ia1@news.xs4all.nl> <4i74pb$b4f@serpens.rhein.de>
- <4ib9h0$i23@news.xs4all.nl> <4ibjo0$qbp@serpens.rhein.de>
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- In article <4ibjo0$qbp@serpens.rhein.de>, Michael van Elst writes:
-
- > Lets stop it here. You are refusing to take advice, you object reasoning
- > and you will always fool around like now.
-
- I am reluctant to contradict you and partly agree with a *@*.xs4all.nl
- c0d3r [1], but it definitely was C='s fault to document something as
- readable where a system call was the alternative of choice.
-
- I agree with you that using an accessor function is generally better
- than direct peeking, but in this case, direct peeking was explicitly
- *allowed*, so I do not see why reading ThisTask is to be considered a
- programmer's fault. (This statement is valid only for source code
- written before Laire's posting, of course.)
-
- After all, even Laire is going to support reading from ThisTask for
- old code, so I assume he considers ThisTask being readable an ill-
- designed but nevertheless existing feature of the current OS, not a
- false assumption.
-
- _________
- [1]: This is not meant to insult the majority of serious xs4all users.
-
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