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| From | Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Design decisions |
| Date | 2012-06-22 14:26 +0000 |
| Organization | Norwich University |
| Message-ID | <a4jdlgF7rrU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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On 2012-06-22, gwowen <gwowen@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jun 22, 1:40?pm, Neil Cerutti <ne...@norwich.edu> wrote: >> On 2012-06-21, jacob navia <ja...@spamsink.net> wrote: >> >> > ... >> > What do you think? >> >> Taking a step back, why not just return garbage for bad indices? >> That seems more like what a C programmer would expect. > > Certainly "undefined behaviour", rather than returning garbage > is the most C-like thing to do. It "works" for arrays. Returning garbage invokes undefined behavior, surely. -- Neil Cerutti "This room is an illusion and is a trap devisut by Satan. Go ahead and dauntlessly! Make rapid progres!" --Ghosts 'n Goblins
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Design decisions jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-06-21 22:19 +0200
Re: Design decisions Andrew Cooper <amc96@cam.ac.uk> - 2012-06-21 21:43 +0100
Re: Design decisions "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-06-21 22:02 +0100
Re: Design decisions Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2012-06-21 23:23 +0100
Re: Design decisions jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-06-22 09:12 +0200
Re: Design decisions Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-06-22 19:44 +1200
Re: Design decisions "Joe." <antelope3@news.net> - 2012-06-25 00:32 -0600
Re: Design decisions gwowen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2012-06-22 01:00 -0700
Re: Design decisions jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-06-22 10:08 +0200
Re: Design decisions Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2012-06-22 17:18 +0100
Re: Design decisions jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-06-22 18:27 +0200
Re: Design decisions Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-06-23 08:44 +1200
Re: Design decisions jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-06-22 23:58 +0200
Re: Design decisions Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-06-23 10:21 +1200
Re: Design decisions jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-06-23 02:13 +0200
Re: Design decisions Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-06-23 12:59 +1200
Re: Design decisions jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-06-23 11:03 +0200
Re: Design decisions Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-06-23 21:52 +1200
Re: Design decisions jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-06-23 12:32 +0200
Re: Design decisions Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2012-06-23 13:54 +0100
Re: Design decisions "Joe." <antelope3@news.net> - 2012-06-25 00:36 -0600
Re: Design decisions jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-06-22 10:42 +0200
Re: Design decisions Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2012-06-22 17:18 +0100
Re: Design decisions jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2012-06-24 18:32 +0200
Re: Design decisions James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-06-21 18:43 -0400
Re: Design decisions "Joe." <antelope3@news.net> - 2012-06-25 00:40 -0600
Re: Design decisions "Joe." <antelope3@news.net> - 2012-06-25 00:28 -0600
Re: Design decisions "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2012-06-22 08:35 +0200
Re: Design decisions Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-06-22 12:40 +0000
Re: Design decisions gwowen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2012-06-22 06:01 -0700
Re: Design decisions Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-06-22 14:26 +0000
Re: Design decisions Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-06-22 14:01 +0100
Re: Design decisions David Resnick <lndresnick@gmail.com> - 2012-06-22 06:13 -0700
Re: Design decisions Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@loria.fr> - 2012-06-22 19:05 +0200
Re: Design decisions "Joe." <antelope3@news.net> - 2012-06-25 00:27 -0600
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