[1416] in Moira
Re: Don't lose leading whitespace with mrbackup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Sommerfeld)
Fri Mar 10 11:48:04 2000
Message-Id: <200003101647.QAA12346@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
To: kcr@MIT.EDU (K. Ramm)
Cc: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>, Mike Whitson <mwhitson@MIT.EDU>,
moiradev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Message from kcr@MIT.EDU (K. Ramm)
of "10 Mar 2000 00:44:51 EST." <uusr9djtm3w.fsf@EMACS-MAKES-A-COMPUTER-SLOW.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 11:47:54 -0500
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
> Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
> > You presumeably mean "t = s + strlen(s)" since having mrbackup
>
> ewww. adding integers + pointers. Yuck. I liked the for loop better.
Welcome to C. If you wanted a type safe language, please go
elsewhere. The for loop may be slower since strlen may be tuned to
look at multiple characters at a time for a null.
- Bill
