Re: gawk: redundant byte for each string [was: Question about gawk unofficial patch]

[Aharon Robbins]

Julian,

I understood what you were saying and did not take it to mean that
you implying that I didn't know what I was doing.  So no worries
there.

One Of These Days I'll fix it.  I don't know when though.

Arnold

> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 15:09:28 +0000
> From: Julian Foad <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: gawk: redundant byte for each string [was: Question about gawk
>  unofficial patch]
> To: Aharon Robbins <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> Julian Foad wrote:
> > Aharon Robbins wrote:
> >> [...]  The + 2 provides a little extra breathing room;
> >> it's been a convention in gawk for ages, before I took over full
> >> time maintanance even.  [...]
> > 
> > [...]   That sort
> > of thing indicates that the programmer didn't understand the code that 
> > they wrote, [...]
>
> Stepan thought I was implying that you don't understand what you write.  Not 
> at 
> all; I only meant that it gives the impression to readers unfamiliar with the 
> background that the author (whoever that may be) was unsure.
>
> Sorry if my denouncement came across too harshly.  Of course there are more 
> important things to think about.
>
> - Julian