[1418] in Moira
Re: Don't lose leading whitespace with mrbackup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Fri Mar 10 15:51:17 2000
Message-Id: <200003102051.PAA26277@sweet-transvestite.mit.edu>
To: kcr@MIT.EDU (K. Ramm)
Cc: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>,
Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>, Mike Whitson <mwhitson@MIT.EDU>,
moiradev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "10 Mar 2000 13:56:05 EST."
<uusput2u01m.fsf@EMACS-MAKES-A-COMPUTER-SLOW.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 15:51:13 -0500
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
>> That bit is type safe; IIRC, when you add an integer to a pointer, it gets
>> multiplied by the appropriate thing (1, in this case). I just think it's
>> bad style, unaesthetic, and less clear than the loop. If the possible
>> increased speed of strlen matters, then I think
>>
>> t = &s[strlen(s)];
Let's kill this thread. After some thought, I like the for loop and
will stick with it. We don't care about any possible speed increase
from using strlen.
Garry
