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Re: C extensions

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Malcolm McLean wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 4:39:37 PM UTC+1, Rick C. Hodgin wrote:
>>
>> I look at things from the end-user's (developer's) point of view,
>> and ask myself, "Would this help developers?"
>>
>> It's why I place value on things like a memprintf() without a
>> trailing null.  It won't help everybody, but there are several
>> returned questions relating to this on a google search.  And I
>> bet there are many more who tried and just abandoned it and
>> wrote their own using a copy-buffer solution if they needed
>> content without the trailing null.
>>
> That's my objection to a lot of new language features.
>
> They're put in because they're relatively easy for a compiler writer to
> add, but they don't actually catch many of the bugs that cause
> deep-seated problem in real code. For example, boost has a souped-up
> printf() that does checking of types. It's easy enough to accidentally pass
> an int to "%f".  But, almost always, the developer looks at the output
> shortly after writing the code, in an informal test. It's obvious that the
> output is garbage, and the bug is caught. We don't rurally need the
> extra safety, and if means that the code is hard to read, then it's going
> to cause other errors to be uncaught.
>


Well said.

-- 
Les Cargill

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    Re: C extensions David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-07-07 08:20 -0700
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        Re: C extensions Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-07-09 05:41 -0700
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            Re: C extensions David Kleinecke <dkleinecke@gmail.com> - 2015-07-09 09:25 -0700
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