From: Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
Subject: Re: functions, packages & characters
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:44:18 -0500
Date: 2002-02-26T10:44:18-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C7BAD52.4050208@mail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: a5evh9$8a22@news.cis.okstate.edu
David Starner wrote:
> Why? I can think of many cases where the normal case may be 40-50
> characters, but for robustness, you need the possibility of handling
> lines 1500 characters long.
No, no, a thousand times no! If what you are writing is at all
general purpose, with the inputs not strictly under your control,
do the world a favor and don't limit input buffer size to any
fixed value. If nothing else, fixing the buffer size means that
you must introduce logic to handle the case where the input is
longer. Then you have to document the limit, and document what
happens in the exceptional case. It's all extra work to make the
code *less* useful, so why do it that way?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-26 15:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-21 8:59 functions, packages & characters Christoph Grein
2002-02-21 18:07 ` Unversed Angel
2002-02-21 18:28 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-02-21 23:44 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-02-22 0:37 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-02-22 1:12 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-02-22 2:57 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-02-22 13:54 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-23 1:10 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-02-25 15:47 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-26 15:58 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-02-25 19:37 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-02-25 20:49 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-26 3:30 ` David Starner
2002-02-26 15:44 ` Hyman Rosen [this message]
2002-02-26 21:43 ` David Starner
2002-02-27 6:32 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-02-28 3:55 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-02-28 18:44 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-03-02 3:25 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-03-03 8:22 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-03-03 17:50 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-03-01 2:08 ` David Starner
2002-03-05 14:36 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-26 7:42 ` tmoran
2002-02-22 15:34 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-02-22 2:47 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-02-22 13:41 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-23 1:08 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-02-23 2:03 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-02-22 16:27 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-02-21 23:49 ` unversedangel
2002-02-21 22:48 ` unversedangel
2002-02-21 23:14 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-02-22 14:11 ` Marin David Condic
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-21 0:16 Unversed Angel
2002-02-21 0:37 ` tmoran
2002-02-21 1:13 ` Unversed Angel
2002-02-21 2:53 ` tmoran
2002-02-21 8:25 ` Unversed Angel
2002-02-21 13:47 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-22 0:22 ` tmoran
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