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Re: excercise from Robert L, please comment

From "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.forth
Subject Re: excercise from Robert L, please comment
Date 2017-05-11 17:07 +1000
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humptydumpty wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at 6:20:26 AM UTC+3, HAA wrote:
> ...
>
> Yes, a trivial buffer overflow candidate.
>
> It is a failure to see that problem could be solved
>  at lower level(characters), without information loss.
>
> Solving problem at parsing string level you use
> an superfluous abstraction level.
>
> Have a nice day,
> hum9

'Trivia' because as with all WJ's examples they are not 'real world'.
In a 'real world' application, you know what your inputs will be and
can therefore make informed decisions as to the complexity of code
necessary and the resources required.

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  Re: excercise from Robert L, please comment Andreas Klimas <klimas@w3group.de> - 2017-05-06 16:44 +0200
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  Re: excercise from Robert L, please comment humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2017-05-08 11:52 -0700
    Re: excercise from Robert L, please comment "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-05-09 13:20 +1000
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        Re: excercise from Robert L, please comment "HAA" <someone@microsoft.com> - 2017-05-11 17:07 +1000
          Re: excercise from Robert L, please comment humptydumpty <ouatubi@gmail.com> - 2017-05-11 00:25 -0700
  Re: excercise from Robert L, please comment Julian Fondren <julian.fondren@gmail.com> - 2017-05-08 21:40 -0700
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