Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Do you insist on const-correctness? Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2023 02:18:22 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 12 Message-ID: <86msx2em5d.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: <20230918012105.b9fb2c36e93542dddb654b1f@gmail.moc> <20230926143726.8fd502c51264c4e127203da4@gmail.moc> <499dbc5e-44f7-45a6-bb0b-69ec6933d0a6n@googlegroups.com> <2aa534e2-1567-43d5-9f36-7c4266e3b9e1n@googlegroups.com> <03fb354b-016a-4451-887b-27dfa6c56f56n@googlegroups.com> <20230928165630.41f579b0d75c8e45c3756490@gmail.moc> <11660097-99bd-45ae-9115-629962cf2f08n@googlegroups.com> <20230928183847.4f8165c1b57cb5234b7469d1@gmail.moc> <20230929014522.eb87102dc07b8cec01be2c4d@gmail.moc> <20230929143353.5cb171a0c85af3da0f61257c@gmail.moc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5df80bfa77615176987b6091c1d3373e"; logging-data="1579522"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18rbnOgXpd3YOUhj7HZpkl/2GaXXI1LmqE=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:v1GID8TRifZbUdb0Hd07SWoCAxU= sha1:xAgqwTC9Avcg4m4sxzmxuT3gb4s= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:176853 Anton Shepelev writes: [..concerning "the magic number seven plus or minus two" and other philosophical/psychological musings..] I encourage you to stay out of these long running, meandering threads that have wandered far away from the subject of the C language or programming in C. Besides being untopical, they aren't going to help you get better at writing programs, either in C or in any other language. I know it can be fun to engage in such discussions, but ultimately its a disservice both to yourself and to the group.