From jcowan@reutershealth.com Wed Jan 22 20:02:05 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_3_0); 23 Jan 2003 04:02:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 41469 invoked from network); 23 Jan 2003 04:02:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m8.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 23 Jan 2003 04:02:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail2.reutershealth.com) (65.246.141.151) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 23 Jan 2003 04:02:04 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com ([10.65.117.21]) by mail2.reutershealth.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA15969 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 23:14:57 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200301230414.XAA15969@mail2.reutershealth.com> Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 22 Jan 2003 23:02:02 +4300 Subject: Re: [lojban] C question: How to or strings and get a string? To: lojban@yahoogroups.com (Lojban List) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 23:02:02 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <200301222226.16684.phma@webjockey.net> from "Pierre Abbat" at Jan 22, 2003 10:26:16 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan Pierre Abbat scripsit: > monmapti returns NULL if it didn't match or a pointer to the first character > after the matching string if it does. is3rafsi is supposed to do the same, > but instead it returns 1, which confuses isslinkuhi, which then calls > is3rafsi(1) and crashes. That is because the value of || is always 0 or 1. Have you proved that these macros are necessary to sufficiently speedy performance? If you haven't, replace them with functions. Premature optimization is the root of all evil. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan Assent may be registered by a signature, a handshake, or a click of a computer mouse transmitted across the invisible ether of the Internet. Formality is not a requisite; any sign, symbol or action, or even willful inaction, as long as it is unequivocally referable to the promise, may create a contract. --_Specht v. Netscape_