Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 21:23:02 08/20/02
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On August 20, 2002 at 23:48:30, Dann Corbit wrote: >On August 20, 2002 at 23:16:03, Russell Reagan wrote: > >>On August 20, 2002 at 18:34:29, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>Purely an accident. According to the ISO C standard, it is perfectly OK for >>>execution of the program to cause demons to fly out of your nose (an ancient >>>interpretation from news:comp.std.c). >>> >>>The printf() function is varadic (variable number of arguments). If you compile >>>a varadic function without a prototype in scope, the behavior of the program is >>>undefined. >> >>The levels of truth: >> >>4. What someone else tells you >>3. What you read in a book >>2. What you read in the documentation >> >>and the highest level of truth is... >> >>1. What the thing does when you run it > >Seat of the pants programming kills people. Literally. It's not best to just try something and go with it just "because it works," I agree. But it is best (IMO) that you do what works instead of what is supposed to work, if what is supposed to work doesn't. I sure wouldn't want the web server that's under my care at my job (not really my job, just a hypothetical) to get attacked just because I wrote my script according to how it was "supposed" to work, when in reality it doesn't exactly work as documented. Russell
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