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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: basic basic ada question
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On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 21:00:33 GMT, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:

> But I've seen plenty of applications that need to process an argument or 
> two, modifying it before being able to decide what to do with/because of 
> it. In such cases it may be reasonable to copy the argument.
> 
> In many cases in C, this is done using strcpy into a fixed buffer, 
> creating a buffer-overflow error. At least this Ada example raises an 
> exception if the argument won't fit in the buffer.

Well, this is a more general issue than just command line arguments. As for
me I consider the very idea of tokenizing as harmful. It is unfortunate
that both C and Ada follow a wrong concept in the command line interface.
Tokenizing is just wasting resources. It is also useless when you have
delimiters other than spaces, keyed arguments, or some nested structure. I
prefer always to parse the original source: the command line as a whole. I
never copy anything.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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